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That fact doesn’t prevent me from knowing that men are statistically more likely to be the aggressor

Right there.

He is a victim if abuse, and deserves support and understanding. He deserves to be heard without caveats. He shouldnt feel the need to have to basically hide his abuse by saying "Yeah, I was abused, but women have it so much worse" to avoid a deluge of critical comments and attacks. Which very often happens anytime a man is a victim of abuse and speaks out about it in any capacity.

He deserves support, and understanding, and resources. Same with his father. Same with all victims of abuse.

But men don't have access to such things, because societal misandry on the topic means resources for men are downright nonexistent, because if a man tries to access currently available resources, they'll be shut down and viewed as an abuser trying to get to vulnerable women, and anytime someone does try to provide resources for men separately, They are either attacked with dubious claims like trying to take resources away from women, or are just straight shut down and ridiculed.

And statistics are only based on reported/known crimes. male victims of abuse, domestic or sexual, are far less likely to report due to the social stigmas associated with toxic ideas of what men should be.

But why bring this up in a thread about abused men?

I don’t know what I’m trying to say with this comment.

That's a indicative of nervousness over even discussing the problem. Which shouldn't be the case. The existence of a larger problem doesn't mean people should feel nervousness over discussing smaller problems.

Also this isn't a smaller problem for the person affected. A man that is abused is no small problem for that man. It's the biggest problem in their life, just as for a woman that's being abused that's the biggest problem in her life. The fact that more women are being abused than men doesn't lessen the effect of the abuse on the individual whether the victim is a man or a woman.

There's a tendency for statistics to override empathy for an individual. "Ah well, that doesn't happen very often, so whatever." But it did happen for that person and it's just as horrible for that person as it is for individuals in that statically larger group.

So we should make an effort to prevent statistics from negating empathy. There shouldn't be a stigma against someone talking about a problem that's statistically less probable as if low probability means something didn't happen and isn't worth talking about. It happened and and we should be aware of how statistics can have the tendency to turn us into statistical psychopaths which prevents real problems from being addressed.

Because that part is completely irrelevant to the fact that men can be victims of domestic abuse and it's often used to dismiss the men who are victims.

Yeah, he's maybe taken it a bit far, but his point is still valid. If I'm talking about my experience with abuse it should be allowed to stand alone. I shouldn't have to acknowledge its place in the meta.

It's fine to discuss its place in the wider conversation, but I shouldn't be forced to engage with it when sharing my experience. When people do try to push this it does unfortunately come across as invalidating my experience.

The original commenter posting that bit makes it seem like they're minimising their experience for fear of others' reactions.