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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
Well, from everything I posted only one sentence is being discussed so what's the problem.
It's also the only thing I disagreed with in your post. I'm asking for equal funding for help in my original post.
"I've been assisting a Mens Rights Group now for 3 months and I am shocked at what is considered normal and okay. 3 months = I am not an expert at all but the FACT that women shelters receive $500 million from the government (Tax Payments) per year and Men receive $0 and the only male shelter in Canada is here in Calgary and it is an unfunded shelter, as well, it might close down, is horrifying. Do you care about this?"
Why is this such a big deal to ask for equal funding? Why wouldn't society what to help a man? Knowing this information, how many people here are willing to help with their time or financial contribution? Who here would sign a petition to demand that the Gov't give money to Men for Shelters and help as well?
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Men's shelters will never get equal funding in Canada, and nor should they, so long as women get murdered in domestic disputes at three times the rate men do.
I think it's wrong men's shelters get no funding (apparently women's shelters are supposed to handle some of the burden, though I doubt they do much in practice), but I also wonder if the type of treatment women get in these situations is the same as what men need. How many men actually go to these shelters? Are there statistics on this? Perhaps a different type of treatment would be more effective?
The statistics and studies done on this are so rudimentary that it's ridiculous that you've already concluded men's shelters deserve the exact same funding as women's. The fact that you don't take into account the severity of different types of domestic violence, and only look at the rate of domestic violence unqualified, betrays an oversimplified way of looking at this.