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Gender based violence: a silent crisis
GENDER BASED VIOLENCE: A SILENT CRISIS As defined by Laura Brunell and Elinor Burkett (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2019) Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes but if often shows the position of male dominance, violence against the woman and the woman’s place in the society and neglect violence implemented on men because of the societal views of men being physically strong. Statements such as ‘you are a man, men don't cry’ are often said to men which in turn shades the male gender and portray them to be dominant, men are often considered perpetuators of violence. There are different forms of violence against men such as domestic violence, female violence against men, societal violence, mass killing, police killings amongst others and when men encounter these violence’s they are unable to relate with others because of the fear of being stigmatized, considered weak and fear of losing respect from the community and fellow men. Men who suffer from gender based violence often turn to withdraw themselves from the society and activities, show high level of anger and irritability, show high level of homophobia, loose sexual interest and intimacy, lost of self esteem, depression, revenge, shame, humiliation, loneliness, resentment, flashback, nightmares, guilt, fear of being touched, emotional numbness, unable to sleep, eat and turn to increase drugs and alcohols intake and even suicide in some cases. Sometimes because of this violence, they are unable to relate with others even their children. Some physical effects of gender based violence on men and boys include discomfort in sitting, lower back problem, rectal pain, and damage of the rectum, genital, sexual dysfunction and the impossibility of making eye contact. ​The particular reason for this circumstance of less reports of violence against me includes: • The fear of by the men of being asked unreasonable questions and being pitied by the hospital staffs and others. • The fear of being stigmatized by the society. • The stereotype Law enforcement which has little or no legal framework for a woman to be prosecuted when committing violent offences against a man. • The fear of no longer being seen as a man able to marry. Research since the 1990s has identified issues of perceived and actual bias when police are involved, with the male victim being negated even while injured. As noted by S. Sownya "Sexual assault on men: crime that is a reality". (July 22, 2015) often there is no legal framework for a woman to be prosecuted when committing violent offences against a man. International scholar Solange Mouthan argues that sexual violence against has been ignored in favor of sexual violence against women and children. Catty Young challenges the feminist movement for not doing enough to challenge the standards in the treatment of male victims of physical abuse and assaults. Amongst others, Das Dasgupta Shamita and Erin Pizzey argue that intimate partner violence against men is generally considered less recognized in society when men are the victims. In structural violence such as wars and genocide, boys and men are mostly singled out and killed for example during the Kosovo war of the late 1990s the targeted mass killings are suggested to be more than 90% of the civilian casualties (Jones, June 2020). In 1990, English language barely had terms to describe male violence “ bereft of terms and phrases which accurately described male rape” (Richie,1990) In 2002, according to Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland (SAVI), according to the journalist Martin Daubney "...there remains a theory that men under report their experiences (of violence by women against men) due to a culture of masculine expectations." In the United Kingdom, only 10% of male victims report their violence to the authorities due to taboos, fears of misunderstanding, and fears of not being believed or even ridiculed by authorities, researchers such as Stemple and Meyer report that sexual violence by women against men is often understudied or unrecognized. In 2012, UNHCR reports on sexual and sender based violence states that violence against men and boys are generally mentioned as footnotes in reports. Men in general turn to hid violence against hem for fear of losing their masculinity although some movies and researchers try to portray violence against but individuals who expirence this never turn to show up.

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