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Why do men believe they have the right?
To space in womens' shelters?
Women built them, slowly gathering individual, then local, then privatized funds support. Contrary to belief, few receive tax dollars.
They receive donations and grants. They pushed for local support, proving that each shelter would not be a community or neighborhood problem.
They are private, guarded and create no trouble because of the secrecy of their locations.
One could be on your block and you'd not know.
After all this work for 50 years, why should men have free access?
Why can't they do the work to understand battered mens' needs and build what's needed?
Atheism definitely has the right take on this.
These shelters were bought and renovated with private monies, from women and agencies supported by women.
All I see here are men trying to claim what has never belonged to them.
Not one has put forth an idea for building for themselves - only taking what women have created through hard work.
Princess Blaise- excellent points In my opinion, all these false stats about men being abused and raped by women are to deflect the reality in which women live and to keep men from both accepting and dealing with the violence men perpetrate upon women.
Filthy - being a woman is not a race...and since when did men choose to help everybody? That's ridiculous.
Sarah Leo - women are not required to pay. That's why it's so expensive to run. Women rest, recover, create a life plan and are moved to safe neighborhoods where they cannot be found and hurt. Often in other states. The laws regarding children are followed in each state, so no woman is a felon..
TBBrit - You obviously don't understand the safety needs of battered women - it's not about what you want or are comfortable with. It's about what THEY need to recover and move on in life.
7 Answers
- ?Lv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Men who complain about this have no understanding of how shelters came about. All they see is someone getting something they're not and it makes them jealous and angry.
- 7 years ago
I think men and women who have been victims of domestic violence should just have separate shelters. It'll be a more comfortable environment for both genders.
- ʄaçadeLv 77 years ago
If they are privately funded, run them as you see fit.
If tax payers fund them, in whole or in part, then they must be run according to tax-payers' rules.
Thank you for creating and operating the shelters without tax money.
Added: Oh, by the by, could you please list which DV shelters in Norway are NOT government-funded? Tusen takk!
- True Blue BritLv 77 years ago
I would have no problem allowing battered men into a shelter, such as these.
Edit: Actually, I believe I do. I have some knowledge of battered women, and those same women were battered by an intimate partner, not by strange men. It's not like rape victims, traumatised by rape by a stranger, and who fear all men. Victims of abuse fear their attackers, not all men. Well, that's my perception, anyway. And yes, I do know quite a few women who have been battered.
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- Anonymous7 years ago
Donation and grants from whom?? Please specify....from shady business and kick back funds gathering at public trough?
And btw, most of women in such shelters are hookers and drugs addicts doing business right in the premise.
A well educated, we'll breed and upbringing lady would be terrified of such "victims" in such shelter!
- Anonymous7 years ago
it is not about having access to women's shelters
it is not about men experiencing domestic violence
the reason some men make these arguments is because they want to make these services unusable for women
they have little or no interest in domestic violence - it is a semantic debate, to destabilize options for women seeking to leave abusive relationships
- LokiLv 77 years ago
Probably because women use everything that men invented - which is practically everything.
What you just stated is a divisive & sexist mentality.
"Mine!!! Someone of MY gender built it, so only I should have access to it!"
Women should STOP using everything that men have built and worked for, then you should probably state this.
