Re:For people with an abusive partner, lockdown means captivity
by Spivak on Monday March 30, 2020 @12:37PM
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It's the same thing every year on International Women's Day but then International Men's Day comes along and it's crickets.
The reason there are women's shelters exit at all is because a passionate group of women stepped up and put in the work to set them up, run the day-to-day operations, get legislation passed for funding and grants, put in the development work to get charitable donations, work with food pantries, clothing donors, grocery stores and a million other things you need to run a nonprofit.
I can only speak to my area, but if you're a man in an abusive relationship and escape and turn up on the door of one of the shelters that on paper only accepts women they're not gonna just kick you out in the cold.
The reason there are women's shelters exit at all is because a passionate group of women stepped up and put in the work to set them up, run the day-to-day operations, get legislation passed for funding and grants, put in the development work to get charitable donations, work with food pantries, clothing donors, grocery stores and a million other things you need to run a nonprofit.
I can only speak to my area, but if you're a man in an abusive relationship and escape and turn up on the door of one of the shelters that on paper only accepts women they're not gonna just kick you out in the cold.