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> I remember a very left forum in which someone bemoaned that one out of four homeless are women That sounds like an extreme mischaracterization. The concern a
by sukilot 6y ago
> I remember a very left forum in which someone bemoaned that one out of four homeless are women
That sounds like an extreme mischaracterization. The concern about homeless women is the extra suffering the endure at the hands (and other parts) of homeless (and other) men.
Much worse is the horrific (and never retracted) Washington Post article fretting that murder at work is a female epidemic because even though men are murdered
_more_ often than women at work, men die so much in other ways that murders of men aren't important*.
It was absolutely gobsmacking to read the utter disregard for men's lives.
"more men are murdered on the job than women. But that's because [450%] more men are killed on the job overall."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/27/murder-is-second-most-likely-way-for-women-to-die-at-work/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/27/murde...
- at_a_remove 6y agoNope. That was the thrust of their argument: we should care about the homeless because some of them were women. I've seen it elsewhere, there's even some handy samples on imgur if you search for them.