Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 percent of people

Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by ajscanlan on Thursday February 07, 2019 @11:56AM (#19106452)

I'm surprised by that considering men are more likely to be homeless.

I wonder why that is, I would've thought poverty and homelessness goes hand in hand.

Maybe it's more to do with mental health? Of all the homeless people I knew, a sizeable portion of them suffered from serious mental illnesses.

I don't know, I just found it interesting.

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by setr on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:22PM (#19119603)

Someone once argued to me that homeless women are much more likely to get assistance, in the form of organizations or from begging, than homeless men. Never verified but seems intuitively true

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by teunispeters on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:05PM (#19173708)

having been homeless and been around homeless groups before - being homeless is very unsafe (deadly) for women, so many will pick the path of slavery instead. (or abusive partners, whatever. It's not really like there's a difference) after all, both involve being used as an object and thrown away, but with the latter one's likely to at least get food first and probably drugs to help survive.

It's a really horrible place to be.

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Re:Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 perce... by raducu on Sunday February 10, 2019 @02:45PM (#19129575)

It's to do with the fact that society objectifies men as objects of success while women are objectified as sexual objects for having a vagina and womb; hence a woman cannot go any lower in value than her womb and vagina while an unsuccessful man can just go the botomless pit as far as society is concerned.

Men are the disposable sex.

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