Fergus Finlay: Time to listen to men who suffer domestic abuse

Just like women who endure violence and coercive control, many male victims fear to speak out — but Men's Aid is listening

People enduring domestic abuse often feel they can't tell anybody about it, and many male victims feel this particularly keenly — thinking 'nobody will believe a woman could possibly abuse a man'.
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Our system is stacked against women. In more or less every conceivable way. The law, business, management, politics, public administration, even the provision of services.

Women who are old are expected to be grateful for what they get — and what they get tends to be what the system can afford, rather than what they’re entitled to as citizens.