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Professor Michael Flood

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Professor Michael Flood

@MichaelGLFlood

Researcher on men, masculinities, gender, and violence prevention. Educator and advocate. Tweets my own. I strive for content-rich and evidence-based tweeting.

Queensland Uni of Technology

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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Sep 9, 2025
Men and boys have a vital role to play in preventing and reducing men’s violence against women and girls. Massive collection of resources here: readings, speeches, manuals, discussions of key debates, bibliographies, my book (free in PDF), etc. xyonline.net/content/violen…
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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Apr 27, 2023
Men: if your wife or girlfriend only has sex with you because you get angry or give her the silent treatment if she doesn’t; if you have sex with her when she is too drunk/high to consent or she is asleep; if you pressure her into sex... Then you are raping her. You are a rapist
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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Apr 23, 2024
One key reason many men don’t recognise our roles in preventing and reducing rape is that we don't realise that most rapes are by men known to the victim, in a familiar location, without serious physical injury, and that rapes are common. Many men have a mistaken idea of rape 1/6
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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Apr 22, 2024
Men: if your wife or girlfriend only has sex with you because if she doesn’t you get angry or give her the silent treatment; if you have sex with her when she is too drunk/high to consent or she is asleep; if you pressure her into sex... Then you are raping her. You are a rapist
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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Jul 30, 2023
Sex and housework: In heterosexual couples with children, when women do more of the household labour than men, they have lower sexual desire, for two reasons: 1) they are more likely to see their partners as dependent on them, and 2) they see the division of labour as unfair 1/3
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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Jan 15, 2024
Stop framing rape victims as daughters and sisters and start framing rapists as brothers and fathers.
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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Apr 23, 2024
Replying to @MichaelGLFlood
Men often imagine some crazed guy, in a park, violently raping a passing woman. Men often don’t think of what’s far more common: A man pressuring his date into sex. A man expecting that his wife will have sex whenever he wants to. A man taking advantage of a drunk woman. Etc. 2/6
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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Jul 22, 2023
Don’t allow men who hate women to define feminism as women who hate men - Emmy Coletti @emmycoletti
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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Oct 21, 2022
Why, when and how men rape: A study in South Africa among men aged 18-49 finds 27.6% have raped a woman. Most were motivated by sexual entitlement, also boredom & ‘entertainment’, & as punishment against girlfriends and other women. Most had first raped girls/women as teenagers.
Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Jul 30, 2023
Replying to @MichaelGLFlood
Implications: Women's sexual desire is constrained by gender inequities. Low desire in women is not located in women, their bodies or minds. Instead, it is a symptom of a broader problem, of inequalities between men and women, including in the division of household labour. 2/3
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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Apr 23, 2024
Replying to @MichaelGLFlood
This ‘real rape’ myth means that we underestimate the real rate of rape, make problematic distinctions between ‘deviant’ men and the ‘normal’ majority of men, and make women themselves responsible to prevent and/ or counter the threat of rape. 4/6
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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Apr 23, 2024
Replying to @MichaelGLFlood
Men, and to a lesser extent women, often believe, mistakenly, that most rapes are by strangers, in a public place, & involving severe physical force, contributing to the neglect of the reality of sexual violence and to victim-blaming. Report, p. 54: ncas.anrows.org.au/wp-content/upl…
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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Sep 26, 2024
Just in case anyone thinks that men’s perpetration of sexual violence, using drugs and alcohol to immobilise, make vulnerable, or overpower women and then rape them and film this, is exclusive to France, here is a story from Australia:
Perth father who made graphic videos of himself raping women and girls he'd drugged found guilty
From abc.net.au
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Professor Michael Flood
@MichaelGLFlood
Apr 23, 2024
Replying to @MichaelGLFlood
Men must learn about the realities of men’s sexual violence against women. It’s common, by ordinary men, and supported by widespread cultural norms about gender and sexuality. And men must, with women, work to foster cultures of consent and equality: xyonline.net/content/what-m… 6/6
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