I belong to a company of men and boys, mostly silent and scared. So few have survived well enough to talk about it. I know I have to talk, because I DID survive, and because I see them in every group I meet, from five to seventy-years-old suffering, silent victims who are not really considered REAL victims by many, since the male species, in their minds, should be able to fend off any abuse—no matter how little they were. No one really defends boy and men victims. So we’ve stayed silent. Wouldn’t you?—Gregory Reid, The Color of Pain