It’s been a what-am-I-missing kind of week.

Synopsis: over the course of ten years, five men are raped. Violently, gruesomely, disfiguringly and traumatazingly. They are disbelieved, mocked, shamed. Online hate groups form. TV shows humiliate them. (There’s also love compassion healing and kindness). Five men, over ten years, experiencing what thousands of women suffer every day.

What is Tamblyn’s goal? To get men to empathize? (I suspect that not many rape-defending men will be reading this book). To show our societal hypocrisy, where rape is suddenly treated as a high-priority crime once it starts happening to men? (Well, no, because there’s none of that. No perps are found, no major efforts are made to resolve the crimes). Should I feel furious? Discouraged? I do, but I already did.

What am I missing?