My brother decided to add himself to a rant I was having about men and their use of rape “jokes”. He proceeded to plug that men get raped just as much as women, and then turned it into a rally cry for support against rape in the military. Told me he was more educated in the matter, that I’m uninformed, that because he was educated by women about it all that he knew more than I did.

And when I tried to gently show him how he was using his male privilege to give voice to something that wasn’t about him or his platform to begin with as well as subtly admit to him that I, as a victim, was offended by what he was saying he responded “Away with you”.