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Justice for Men & Boys 
Interesting indeed. As is the comments stream from the USA mainly. If one reads it with Erin Pizzey’s works in mind the article makes perfect sense. For it reads as about any abusive relationship, perpetrator male or female. Having experience of abuse themselves as a child, narcissism, having “authority” over the victim, delusions of a “relationship” and blaming others for not meeting legitimate “needs”. All perfectly familiar from the far more extensive research on male perpetrators too. Now the difference comes in the “social construction”, very evident in the comments varying from the boys being “up for it” to not being as deeply affected. In other words the real difference is in how society, and its agents, treat the same phenomena. With the “proof” of the “gendered” nature of abuse being who gets convicted rather than other research data. As one commenter (from Ireland apparently) points out the starting point should be about the behaviour irrespective of the sex of victims or perpetrators. Now some data I saw a few years ago showed in some States a considerable number of such cases as this article covered, suggesting that they are taking it more seriously. Which makes me wonder about the other States and indeed the UK where such cases going to court are very rare…… could it possibly be because as yet we’re still thinking boys are less worthy of protection?
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This pops the old nonce balloon.
It goes both ways yet again. Every head teacher should have this in her or his training.
I expect most professionals and parents would find it offensive and misogynistic.
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Back to schools, we find boys are the majority of victims of ”sextortion” Pupils get rare alert over dangers of sextortion – BBC News Yet somehow I doubt there will be much real attention to this unless stories about girls enter the media. Just as the fact that males are roughly half of the victims of stalking, including some high profile actors and pop stars recently gets lost in a general narrative of predatory males. No doubt “sextortion” victims are counted under the Gov. Violence Against Women and Girls data.
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