13,000 of the 26,000 Sexual assualt victims were Men.

[OriginalShroom]

We've been hearing how the women in the military are being so abused by the men, and the number of 26,000 cases of assault in the military.

Like most people I would imagine, I ass/u/med that these were all women being victimized.

Turns out I was wrong and I will bet you were also.

Half those cases were men.

Now, is the military suddenly full of women sexually assaulting men, or are do we have cases of Homosexual men sexually assaulting other men now?

Male military rape survivors speak out about backlash against them - UPI.com

WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- Male survivors of rape while serving in the military say they are often deemed "liars and troublemakers" when they report abuse.

The Pentagon estimated about 13,000 of the 1.2 million men serving in the military suffered sexual assault last year, NBC News reported. About 12,100 of the 203,000 women in uniform were sexually assaulted on active duty last year.

The Defense Department has said men "report at much lower rates than female survivors."

Brian Lewis, a rape survivor who served in the Navy, said that is because male survivors are "still viewed as having wanted it."

"As a culture, we've somewhat moved past the idea that a female wanted this trauma to occur, but we haven't moved past that for male survivors," Lewis said. "In a lot of areas of the military, men are still viewed as having wanted it or of being homosexual. That's not correct at all. It's a crime of power and control."

"But also, you're instantly viewed as a liar and a troublemaker [when a man reports a sex crime], and there's the notion that you have abandoned your shipmates, that you took a crap all over your shipmates, that you misconstrued their horseplay," Lewis said.

"The biggest reasons men don't come forward [with sex assault reports] are the fear of retaliation [from fellow troops], the fear of being viewed in a weaker light and the fact there are very few, if any, services for male survivors," Lewis told NBC News.

President Obama said though the military is ashamed of the situation there's "no silver bullet" for solving the sexual assault problem.

Sex crimes in the military are "dangerous to our national security" and "not a sideshow," Obama said at the White House after meeting with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey and the leaders of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, as well as senior enlisted advisers to discuss the rise in military sexual assaults.

It will be interesting to see if the media and the politicians continue to push the fact that over half the sexual assault cases had men as the victims under the rug while misleading everyone to think that the vast majority of the cases, if not all, had women as the victims.

 

[ScienceRocks]

There's a lot of violence within our military. No question about it. People like to hurt other people and take advantage of them.

 

[OriginalShroom]

I wonder if they are going to sink the time, money, and effort into the male victims as they do the female?