{"id":58257,"date":"2017-11-25T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/this-year-reclaim-the-night-is-more-significant-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2017-11-25T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T15:15:58","slug":"this-year-reclaim-the-night-is-more-significant-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/this-year-reclaim-the-night-is-more-significant-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"This Year, Reclaim The Night Is More Significant Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>This Year, Reclaim The Night Is More Significant Than Ever<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/5a19831f140000015450f2e1.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\" alt=\"\" data-credit=\"Victoria Jones - PA Images via Getty Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"Victoria Jones - PA Images via Getty Images\" data-provider=\"getty\" data-provider-asset-id=\"831750398\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p>Please don\u2019t ask me, \u201cwhat about <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> victims\u201d, Okay? Let\u2019s get it out the way now, yes <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> are victims of rape and domestic abuse and absolutely need to be treated with dignity and respect and have access to specialist services and an effective criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>But we are looking at repeated incidences of domestic abuse, we are taking into account coercive control and not just physical violence \u2013 itself a mechanism of control \u2013 and we understand the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> whose violence towards <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> is in retaliation sometimes after years of abuse.\u00a0 This is gender-based violence.<\/p>\n<p>And the thing is, that every time you ask that, \u201cwhat about <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> victims?\u201d it has the same effect as \u201care you sure it was rape?\u201d or \u201cwhat\u2019s your sexual history?\u201d or \u201cbut where do we draw the line?\u201d It serves to question and undermine the huge courage it takes for any <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> to speak up about her experiences of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> violence and name it as part of a bigger problem: Me too.<\/p>\n<p>Because what you do is individualise each <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a>\u2019s experience and label the perpetrators as monsters and aberrations; outliers of our society\u2019s expectations of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>. And when you do that not only do you separate <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> from any sense of solidarity with other <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>, pointing the finger at her because she was unable to judge the situation correctly or make herself safe or she gave the wrong signals. Not only do you do that to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>, but you also give up on <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m not saying perpetrators shouldn\u2019t face retribution and let\u2019s face it; our criminal justice system is woefully inadequate for the brave minority of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> who turn to it. But if we keep trying to brush sexual harassment and violence under the carpet by labelling individual <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> as the problem, we pretend that our expectations of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boys<\/a> are very different to the reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>All over the country over the next few days, people are reclaiming the night; 40 years after <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> were told to stay home to stay safe<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you grow up with anger as the only acceptable emotion to show, that when you cry you\u2019re told to be brave and run along, or worse, that you\u2019re being a \u201c<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girl<\/a>\u201d or you\u2019re \u201c<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>\u201d. That you should play with lego and soldiers not dolls, and that playing games where you care about a doll are stupid compared to a game where you kill baddies.\u00a0 And in the same world <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girls<\/a> exist for your pleasure in pornography, they are your juniors in the workplace, they will do the majority of unpaid child care and care for relatives, where famous football players and film stars can rape or be violent with impunity, and in the locker room other <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> joke about who they\u2019d like to\u2026This is what we need to talk about, not which ones are the bad <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What has been so moving and encouraging about #MeToo, #YoTambien and #BalanceTonPorc, and the continuation of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> coming forward to name their experiences and the perpetrators, is that when the world tried to blame individual <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> and make it go away, we kept saying wait, there\u2019s more. And there\u2019s more. And there\u2019s more. It hasn\u2019t been easy to listen to, and to every <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> that said \u201cme too\u201d, to every <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> that came forward to name her perpetrator \u2013 thank you. And to the great many others who couldn\u2019t, who didn\u2019t want to, and who couldn\u2019t tell if it even was a\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We are with you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I hope this is a sea change in how institutions and workplaces handle sexism and sexual harassment and violence. I hope <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> in senior positions to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girls<\/a> think twice before taking advantage of their positions of power. And I hope we don\u2019t stop this conversation.<\/p>\n<p>All over the country over the next few days, people are reclaiming the night; 40 years after <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> were told to stay home to stay safe. The London march is <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>-only. I cannot describe to you the feeling of marching alongside a thousand <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> at night, taking over the streets of central London. The noise, the defiance, the joy and the noise! Yes, there are divisions between us as <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>; areas of disagreement and power imbalances between us that we need to keep talking and listening about. Tonight we reach for solidarity with each other across those divisions, without denying them. And we say to every <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> \u2013 we are with you. Shout it with me, \u201cWomen, united, will never be defeated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reclaim the Night takes place Saturday 25 November, marking the International Day for the Eliminiation of Violence Against Women.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more information on Reclaim the Night, including a list of timings,\u00a0sister marches and speakers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimthenight.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/reclaim-the-night_uk_5a1981bbe4b0d4906caf0a6f\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/reclaim-the-night_uk_5a1981bbe4b0d4906caf0a6f<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Year, Reclaim The Night Is More Significant Than Ever Please don\u2019t ask me, \u201cwhat about <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> victims\u201d, Okay? Let\u2019s get it out the way now, yes <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> are victims of rape and domestic abuse and absolutely need to be treated with dignity and respect and have access to specialist services and an effective criminal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/this-year-reclaim-the-night-is-more-significant-than-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Year, Reclaim The Night Is More Significant Than Ever<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>This Year, Reclaim The Night Is More Significant Than Ever - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/this-year-reclaim-the-night-is-more-significant-than-ever\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Year, Reclaim The Night Is More Significant Than Ever - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This Year, Reclaim The Night Is More Significant Than Ever Please don\u2019t ask me, \u201cwhat about male victims\u201d, Okay? 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