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I'm surprised by that considering men are more likely to be homeless. I wonder why that is, I would've thought poverty and homelessness goes hand in hand. May
by ajscanlan 8y ago
I'm surprised by that considering men are more likely to be homeless.
I wonder why that is, I would've thought poverty and homelessness goes hand in hand.
Maybe it's more to do with mental health? Of all the homeless people I knew, a sizeable portion of them suffered from serious mental illnesses.
I don't know, I just found it interesting.
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- setr 8y agoSomeone once argued to me that homeless women are much more likely to get assistance, in the form of organizations or from begging, than homeless men. Never verified but seems intuitively true
- raducu 8y agoIt's to do with the fact that society objectifies men as objects of success while women are objectified as sexual objects for having a vagina and womb; hence a woman cannot go any lower in value than her womb and vagina while an unsuccessful man can just go the botomless pit as far as society is concerned. Men are the disposable sex.
- teunispeters 8y agohaving been homeless and been around homeless groups before - being homeless is very unsafe (deadly) for women, so many will pick the path of slavery instead. (or abusive partners, whatever. It's not really like there's a difference) after all, both involve being used as an object and thrown away, but with the latter one's likely to at least get food first and probably drugs to help survive. It's a really horrible place to be.