Cops' lives (in a particularly uncharitable interpretation) revolve around reinforcing their own masculinity by winning fights and exerting dominance. Using that to protect damsels in distress from creepy male others/sexual predators is a highly masculinity-reinforcing, fatherly/brotherly and desirable thing to do.

An effiminate man (using the again uncharitable notion that nerds with desk jobs are not manly in the eyes of police officers) walking into the station and asking for protection from other effiminate men is more likely to be seen as a pathetic whiner.

I love how this explanation is fully feminist right up to the point it utterly ignores the existence of female police officers.

On average, 18% of police officers in a given department are female. It is more likely (5-1 odds) that the officer on your case will be male.

Of course you could also get a female cop, just as you could get a male cop who takes the complaint seriously. Parent asked why the victim's gender matters; this is a reason why it is not entirely irrelevant.

AFAIK, they pretty much ignore women's complaints as well (at least judging from reporting about e.g. Anita Sarkeesian).

The police department handed the information from Anita Sarkeesian to the FBI for investigation. The FBI has an ongoing investigation, have approached IGDA and together with bullying experts are working on the complaints.

I think very few cases has had such large impact as the one reported by Anita Sarkeesian.

I think they're trying to say that a male might get a stereotyped police reaction that is "Toughen up!"

In interactions with the police gender and race always matters.

Even in Germany, police can be a bunch of racist d.ckheads.

Because I have loads more privilege than most, being white, male and from Norway.

Huh? The Norwegian police is still a police force (so they're naturally going to be slightly corrupt regarding the behavior of themselves/other police), and occasionally racist/evil - but they're actually pretty good compared to the police forces almost anywhere else in the world.

I don't see how being a white male in Norway would impact your criminal complaint in any negative way AT ALL.