▲ 1768 ▼ TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide (en.m.wikipedia.org) submitted 2 years ago by Backlo@lemmy.today to c/til@lemmy.world 286 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago So sorry to hear that. I read: 1 - men absolutely get abused 2 - we don’t need to entirely eliminate any of the existing narrative that women have it rough [but let’s add abuse of men to the picture] No notes besides sending some love back, brother. permalink fedilink source parent