Re:Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)
by sukilot on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:53PM
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> I remember a very left forum in which someone bemoaned that one out of four homeless are women
That sounds like an extreme mischaracterization. The concern about homeless women is the extra suffering the endure at the hands (and other parts) of homeless (and other) men.
Much worse is the horrific (and never retracted) Washington Post article fretting that murder at work is a female epidemic because even though men are murdered _more_ often than women at work, men die so much in other ways that murders of men aren't important*.
It was absolutely gobsmacking to read the utter disregard for men's lives.
"more men are murdered on the job than women. But that's because [450%] more men are killed on the job overall."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/27/murde...
Re:Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)
by at_a_remove on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:58PM
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Nope. That was the thrust of their argument: we should care about the homeless because some of them were women. I've seen it elsewhere, there's even some handy samples on imgur if you search for them.
I remember a very left forum in which someone bemoaned that one out of four homeless are women, and that's why we should care about homelessness.
Overall, I have begun to look at which privileges are examined and which are ignored as the real three card monte.