Beaten by their wives, silenced by society Recognising male victims does not diminish violence against women; it challenges the stigma that prevents survivors from speaking out. Gender Just now

What you need to know: Men facing domestic violence often fear ridicule and disbelief more than the violence itself, leaving many to suffer in silence.

A society that only recognises violence when it happens to one kind of person will always struggle to end violence in general, because it has already decided, in advance, who deserves to be believed.

He stops being a man who survived violence and becomes one who failed at being ‘a man’.