"What about the men that get raped?"

[thefinerthingsinlife]

Whilst talking about Reclaim the Night to a friend, a male asked what it was about I explained, he then questioned "what about all the men that get raped and are victims of domestic violence??" I explained to him that I think that only 3% of men are victims and the stats are roughly the same for Dv (i'm not a 100% that these stats).

He then said "I thought you believed men and women are equal therefore Reclaim should be about men victims too"

I didn't really know what to say to this so can someone give me some guidence

Thanks

I posted about Reclaim the Night in AIBU earlier but only a couple of people have replied. Frustrating because if all the people who had been assaulted came out onto the streets at once it would block every road in London and have a huge impact.

I remember there being an anti-terrorism march not long after the 7 / 7 bombings.
Were muslims / arabic people allowed on the march? Of course not! Imagine how insensitive it would have been for the victims if fundamentalist muslims had been marching along with them.

The situation is the same with RTN, for the same reasons.

welcome to Mumsnet Acemumpower. What an interesting subject to pick for your first post. And a thread that had been dead for over a month, as well!
what brought you to Mumsnet?