The scale of this is way beyond policing and the justice system and we need a frank conversation about it, that looks at prevention work, protective work, as well as enforcement … work.
It’s an interesting report.
Lovely. When your own sworn officers are a major part of the problem, now it’s a national concern. Suddenly NOW it’s everyone else’s problem. This is what you get banning every sexual outlet and attempting to create the most puritanical society.
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Limiting the scope to where it only covers depictions of real minors would be a great start. They’re about to escalate the war on CSE to be a war against human psychology, and that’s an unwinnable war.
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This sounds like sexism. Blaming men for all problems. This article is promoting misandry and fear of men. Shameful.
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not at all surprised that this article only cares about abuse perpetrated by men, but not abuse perpetrated by women (also not surprised that there’s no mention of male victims)
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In his book The Highly Sensitive Man, author and psychologist/psychotherapist Tom Falkenstein writes that there are “numerous psychological studies over the last forty years that tell us that, despite huge social change, the stereotypical image of the ‘strong man’ is still firmly with us at all ages, in all ethnic groups, and among all socio-economic backgrounds. …
“One also gets the impression from these articles that we need to keep any genuine sympathy for these ‘poor men’ in check: the patriarchy is still just too dominant to allow ourselves that luxury.”
I’ve been consuming mainstream news for 35 years, and I tend to notice things that most others would not notice; or maybe they notice but feel like they are supposed not to notice and behave accordingly. One thing is the thick social-issue politics, or pejoratively referred to as “woke”, within the news-media, especially Canadian outlets like the CBC, Globe and Mail and Toronto Star.
When it comes to male recipients, there’s injustice that those news-media seem to consider, cover or ignore as though such gender injustice is ideologically thus politically acceptable.
Falkenstein also writes: “Women have thus been understood as the nondominant group, which deviated from the norm, and they have been examined and understood from this perspective. One of the countless problems of this approach is that the experiences and specific challenges of the ‘dominant group,’ in this case men, have remained hidden. …
“You only have to open a magazine or newspaper, turn on your TV, or open your browser to discover an ever-growing interest in stories about being a father, being a man, or how to balance a career with a family. Many of these articles have started talking about an apparent ‘crisis of masculinity’.
"The headlines for these articles attempt to address male identity, but often fall into the trap of sounding ironic and sometimes even sarcastic and critical. They all seem to agree to some extent that there is a crisis.
“But reading these articles one gets the impression that no one really knows how to even start dealing with the problem, let alone what a solution to it might look like. …”
In summation: Suck it all up, guys!
Unlike with female violent offenders, male offenders are promptly demonized by all three forms of Western media — entertainment, news and social — without any concern as to the likely trauma the men have suffered at some point, especially in their cerebrally formative years.
With men, they’re socially, albeit implicitly, expected to suck up their trauma as real men would/should. Then they turn to heavy self-medicating, which, if anything, exacerbates their suppressed trauma and untreated anger. And a vicious cycle can readily self-perpetuate.
Contrarily, with female offenders it’s like there’s an assumption that someone, likely a male relation, must have messed her up via serious abuse. They’re very much encouraged by the media to speak up/out about any abuse they suffered; they’re meant to promptly receive sympathy along with criminal justice against their abuser [nowadays without any critical eye as to possible fabrication].
Meantime, there remains a subtle societal take-it-like-a-man mentality, one in which many young males will choose to abstain from ‘complaining’ about their turmoil, even sexual victimization, as that is what ‘real men’ do.
A similar mindset also persists, albeit perhaps subconsciously: Men can take care of themselves, and boys are basically little men. It could be the same mindset that might help explain why the author of Childhood Disrupted was only able to include one male among its six interviewed subjects, there presumably being such a small pool of ACE-traumatized males willing to formally tell his own story of traumatic childhood adversity.
Again, those men will be expected to suck up their trauma as real men would/should. They then may turn to self-medicating, which, if anything, exacerbates their suppressed trauma and untreated anger, etcetera. And the vicious cycle readily self-perpetuates.
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