About the hostility toward threads about rape and violence against women [View all]

This whole business of a few members of this site taking posts about rape and domestic violence as personal attacks against themselves has got me thinking. A "brand new" member signed up just to tell me how offensive my posts about rape are since they amount of "post after post attacking men . . . day after day." He insisted they serve no purpose because I'm preaching to the choir, and they only antagonize people (meaning men who think like him).

There is much that is strange about that position, but two points come to mind. One, it assumes that all posts are created for men like him and reveals an inability to comprehend that women might want to talk to each other and our allies. What really strikes me, however, is why these individuals decide that posts about rape are directed at them and not posts about murder, robbery, and other crimes. Why do they not take the posts about congress or bankers as attacking men, when most of them are also male? They seem to see themselves reflected in OPs about rape, harassment, and domestic violence in ways they don't in threads about white collar crime, theft, ordinary assault, or murder. I wonder why that is?