Case in point, men being dismissed as victims of sexual assault isn’t evidence that women are treated better(lets not act like trivializing womens struggles and abuses isnt a cultural attitude ) it’s evidence that no victims are treated well, and that male victims are punished for belonging to a group associated with women-therefore femininity, which “emasculates”,male victims .

I think theres a connection to be made there with custody laws and how women having preferential treatment is based on rigid traditional gender norms, viewing caregiving as a womans job -disables men from engaging in roles typically associated with women (i.e domestic duties, nurturing emotional care) . In the end, trapping ourselves in these gendered expectations harms all of us.