[Lostie!]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Not enough men come forward to warrant as many shelters as women and that's purely down to the prison that is masculinity and, regardless of Truth's attempts to find reasons to blame women for everything, it's a prison of men's own making. Not many men will admit to being abused because they see it as an attack on their masculinity and they think it makes them look weak and that they'll be ridiculed by others. If you want more men's shelters then you need to change the way men think so they'll be more likely to come forward and justify the need for more shelters.

I'd say you need to change the way people think, the outdated attitudes about male abuse are held by both men and women. I agree that what you say definitely applies to some, but I don't think the whole "self made prison of masculinity" applies in all cases. Some of them won't be speaking out for the very same reason some female victims don't, fear of their abuser and others won't because of the ideas other people (both male and female) put out there about how ridiculous the idea of male domestic abuse is.