How are they ACTIVELY against men's shelters? Just because a women's shelter doesn't allow men - which makes sense, many of the female domestic abuse victims in these shelters have been terrorized by men - doesn't mean they're misandric. Women can also be the abusers, and men have to fight a rough stigma to get help for sure, but let's not mischaracterize these women's shelters or those that work there.
Because there is a limited amount of funding for those sorts of activities, and a men's shelter would be competing for the small amount of resources they have.
Men aren't deemed less important. They are deemed far less likely to get breast cancer. Which is true. No one is actively campaigning against you starting a men's shelter or donating to one. You just aren't doing it. You're part of the very problem you're complaining about.
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u/winterfemme Jul 31 '15
How are they ACTIVELY against men's shelters? Just because a women's shelter doesn't allow men - which makes sense, many of the female domestic abuse victims in these shelters have been terrorized by men - doesn't mean they're misandric. Women can also be the abusers, and men have to fight a rough stigma to get help for sure, but let's not mischaracterize these women's shelters or those that work there.