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I took it as a positive. It's an opportunity for homeless people to be given a chance. As long as the lessons are learned. That's a fascinating web site and in
by rustynails 11y ago
I took it as a positive. It's an opportunity for homeless people to be given a chance. As long as the lessons are learned.
That's a fascinating web site and interesting article. They use the term "people" a lot (great!), but refer specifically to only women being impacted (bad but very PC),
"She said she and the other women in her shelter felt burned". That might be that the shelter is a female only shelter, but it's very common.. However, I read about 10 articles on that site. They were only about women or a black man... Very interesting. On the surface, it looks like a prejudiced website (PC on steroids).
On a side note, Australian Bureau of Statistics says that ~70% of homeless people are men, but most articles in Australia talk about the plight of homeless women. I wonder if that becomes self-fulfilling: extreme sexism in the media means that homeless men are neglected for Political Correctness' sake.
Personally, I think most media have a lot to answer for in driving prejudice as hard as they can, especially in the last few years. While some call for a men's movement, I see how much feminism drives sexism - and we don't need more sexism driven by gender based movements. We need society to universally condemn prejudice.
- FussyZeus 11y agoI took it to mean it was a women only shelter (pretty common actually, for victims of domestic violence).
- jonas21 11y agoThe article mentions that Amazon was working with the YWCA a number of times. The "W" in YWCA stands for women [1], so it's very likely that this was a women's shelter or at the very least a program targeted toward women. So it's unsurprising that the article refers to women being impacted, and I would hardly attribute it sexism or "political correctness". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YWCA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YWCA
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