WAPO: Tough article about U.S. violence against boys: Trigger alert: Very graphic

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/02/22/why-we-dont-talk-about-sexual-violence-against-boys-why-we-should/?arc404=true

Sexual Assault Against Boys Is a Crisis
It’s far more common than we think. Here’s why we don’t talk about it.

By Emma Brown
FEBRUARY 22, 2021

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The default in discussions about sexual violence is to think of boys and men as perpetrators and women as victims. But that is an oversimplification that is built on a damaging stereotype about male invulnerability, and it obscures the truth: Boys can be victims, and boys can need help. We’ve just built a world that makes it hard for them to admit it — and for the rest of us to acknowledge it. If we want to raise boys differently, we must start believing that they are equally capable of feeling pain and doing violence.

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