Women Raping Men: A Survivor Tells His Story To HuffPost Live (VIDEO)

theangrygypsy:

    Former U.S. Marine James Landrith joined HuffPost Live to tell his story of being raped by a pregnant woman decades ago. As host Mike Sacks points out, female sexual predators are often depicted as objects of teenage fantasy in popular culture, but this ignores the fact that men can be victims of rape by women.

    Earlier this year, the United States government updated its official definition of rape to include any gender of the victim and perpetrator.

    Landrith told his story of being raped by a pregnant woman while on active duty as a U.S. Marine about twenty years ago.

    As he tells HuffPost Live, the woman drugged him and forcibly had sex with him telling him that he “better not be forceful” or he would hurt her unborn child. Landrith still doesn’t remember much of what happened during the experience.

    By posting this article, I hope it can help start conversations about male rape victims and encourage others to speak up.  The more we get people talking, the more likely we are to find ways to help one another heal and recover…

    I would like to think that we, as a society, are in the process of making HUGE strides in changing how we see rape and the people who have been affected by it.  But I know that in order to do that to the absolute fullest extent, we need to listen to the men just as much as we listen to the women.  We do.  I know that some of you may bristle at that idea, but I ask you: why is a man’s story suddenly less valid than a woman’s?  Why must their experiences be denounced, and other’s championed based solely on their sex?  That is WRONG.  Didn’t we just spend all of the 2012 Election saying that rape is rape, and that it can happen to ANYONE?  

    That being said, I do sincerely believe that it is in EVERYONE’S best interest to realize that this CAN happen, and that it DOES happen — that ANYONE can be a victim, and that ANYONE can be a predator.

    If we’re going to put an end to rape culture, then it would almost assuredly behoove ALL of us to examine how it manifests — however, wherever, and with whoever it may.

    Just had to put that out there.