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#WhatAboutMe ?

#WhatAboutMe ?

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12035852 For some male victims of sexual assault and abuse, #MeToo can feel more like #WhatAboutMe? They admire the women speaking out about traumatic experiences as assault and harassment victims, but wonder if men with similar scars will ever receive a comparable level of public empathy and understanding. Multiple studies have concluded that about one…

#Childhood #abuse #casts #long #painful #shadows

#Childhood #abuse #casts #long #painful #shadows

Bybetterblokesnz

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE1710/S00096/significant-root-cause-of-trauma-for-addicts-highlighted.htm Dapaanz Executive Director Sue Paton says people with addiction have been particularly impacted by sexual abuse and other childhood trauma and that most of the people she knows struggling with addiction have trauma in their pasts. “We’re not minimising anybody else’s pain or diminishing what anyone has achieved overcoming it, but the significance of…

Is marriage over?

Is marriage over?

Bybetterblokesnz

Marriage is practised in every society yet is in steep decline globally. Is this it for longterm intimate relationships? https://t.co/kTXyuH8Nsq — Aeon (@aeonmag) April 7, 2020 Is something similar going on worldwide? Is marriage collapsing because empowered women have less need for pair-bonds? At first blush, the answer seems to be yes. Many writers trace…

I eventually told him I was 15 and he said that was OK.

I eventually told him I was 15 and he said that was OK.

Bybetterblokesnz

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300153970/teacher-accused-of-sexually-grooming-violating-teen-boys-he-met-on-dating-app A teacher picked a 15-year-old boy up from outside his school, drove him to “the middle of nowhere” and tried to have sex with him, a court has heard. Teacher Edwin John Downing is on trial at the High Court in Auckland. He has denied 13 charges, including sexual violation, sexual conduct with a…