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Originally Posted by jo_thorne
Try to notice whether it's women with children who get this help. In my experience, there's not much difference between the amount of help for males or females when children aren't involved. The help seems to be allocated based more on problem: domestic violence victim, alcoholism or substance abuse recovery, HIV+/AIDs sufferer.
I'm sure the type of help available also varies from area to area within the US, since here, much of that type of help is run by 501(c), private, or religious organizations, rather than being government-run.
There is a lot of help in the area where I live for homeless men, partly because there are lots of veterans here. It's still not enough to help everyone who needs it, though.
One area where most of the US falls short is in providing help to homeless families. There are very few shelters that are equipped to let families stay there together.
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Where I live, one of the main shelters specifically states that they will not take single adult males but they don't say that they won't accept single adult females, children, or elders. I know that a lot of other places are like that too.
Even if many places wouldn't take single females, I still think that women (especially attractive ones) have an overwhelming advantage. They can garner the sympathy of just about anybody because of their looks and sexuality and get help easily should they be disadvantaged.
They can use their sexuality to make money (I'm not even talking about prostitution or any other kind of sex) to get ahead.
To give you an extreme example of what I mean: I actually knew a woman who used to be poor and lived in a cheap extended stay hotel and developed an income equal to a six figure salary off of anonymous web cam whoring (she wore a mask and didn't reveal any personally identifying information) and anonymously selling dirty underwear on the internet (there are actually men who pay $50+ for some woman's dirty panties and $100+ dollars for a special order such as semen stains, skid marks, or worn for several days). I'm dead serious, look it up if you don't believe me. The main website that does this even offer to pay via Amazon gift cards so the user can remain completely anonymous and only asks you to submit pictures of your body without your face in your underwear to prove that you're a female.
In short, even if a woman can't get help from the system, there is no excuse to be on the street as a female because of how big of an advantage that you have.
I'm not a sexist by any means and I believe that women deserve equal rights by all means, but I don't think it's fair that they have such a huge advantage over men.