Women are almost always the victims of SA, and men are almost always the perpetuators of SA, and a lot of men are assaulting women. These facts make any man uncomfortable.
Unless the woman dies during her assault, I notice that men tend to close ranks and cover for each other rather than try to find and punish the rapist. This includes (but isn't limited to)
> indifferent or even accusatory policing during the investigation of the crime
> letting evidence moulder away in forensic labs untested for months, even years despite funding specifically to address the rape kit backlog
> Minimization of the crime's severity
> Lionizing the perpetrator (e.g. "He's got a scholarship to Stanford! This will ruin his life!")
> Defaming/discrediting the victim
> Just straight up denial ("Things like that don't happen in this country/town/neighborhood")
> Make up a bunch of mitigating factors (e.g. "What if he was drunk too?!" )
It's uncanny; somehow men have no problem believing a dead woman was sexually assaulted, but an alive one is a "he-said, she-said situation." And since I don't actually think all men are evil, and I doubt that they are consciously keeping all women in a state of fear through this process of pretending rape never happens, I think men do this as a kind of defense mechanism. Like an ostrich burying its head in the sand, if good men were to acknowledge how appallingly common and ubiquitous sexual assault is, then they would have to do something about it; but that would be difficult, and this rape problem barely affects them, so men just try to block it out.
It's really astonishing how hard men work to avoid acknowledging that CSA and sexual assault among adults are so common that pretty near every woman has experienced it to some degree.
I've never given it a ton of thought but I wouldn't judge a man who was assaulted/molested as a child the same as a man who got guilted or blackmailed into sex by some faggot.
I think the problem is at its worst in jail, where the men only have other men to victimize. But no sympathy if the men are whoring themselves out for Cup Noodles and toilet hooch, because according to men that's life on easy mode.