The Equality of Women and Men People are equal to a certain degree. Individuals are not one hundred percent equal to one another. For example, all citizens of the United States of America are granted protection, but females are more protected. Women are more protected than males because society sees them as fragile beings that are always the victims to many cases involving assault. Many of these cases revolve around domestic violence. Because a large amount of women have been victimized in domestic violence cases, there are many women’s shelters. There are women only shelters because those women have grown scared of men. However, males have also experienced domestic abuse. Males who have come out of domestic violent situations should be treated
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Sarah Mervosh writes, “Shelters spends an average of $20,000 per month on hotel rooms for male victims and their children, in order to keep female and male victims separate” (Mervosh). The women get to stay in their shelter because there is one present for them; however, the men are forced to stay in hotel rooms because of limited space. The amount of money being spent keeping the two genders away from each other could instead be spent on building a shelter for men.
For instance, Jeanne Prejean writes, “The Family Place team announced…it will open the first shelter in Dallas for male victims of domestic violence in January 2016” (Prejean). After January 2016, there will officially be one male-only shelter in Dallas, Texas. There could have been many more shelters for men; there is funding for it, as seen above. It is not fair that women have hundreds of shelters across the world, but men only have a limited amount of shelters. In short, by reason of restricted space, men are being sent away from shelters while women are accepted because there is much more space for …show more content…
To illustrate, society depicts men as strong and emotionless, but not all men are like that. Samantha Olson writes, “‘Be a man’ ‘Suck it up’ ‘Don’t cry’ are only a few phrases handpicked from a basket of ego-damaging constructions built into today’s society” (Olson). In other words, Olson is saying that boys have been raised to never be weak and to hide their emotions. Boys are not all macho; they just appear that way because society depicts them like that. They are people as well and need to be protected. Additionally, people may believe that men do not need shelters because no man will have so little pride to ask for help, but that is incorrect. In the article, Battered Men – The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence, it states, “302 [battered] men were surveyed. This study found that between half and two-thirds of the men contacted the police, a [domestic violence] agency, or a [domestic violence] hotline” (Hoff). Approximately 200 of the men asked for help. The men who were abused did not care about their image because they wanted help. Men need more shelters because there are so many of them that need help. To summarize, men can feel the same abuse as woman and need to be protected from
Sarah Mervosh writes, “Shelters spends an average of $20,000 per month on hotel rooms for male victims and their children, in order to keep female and male victims separate” (Mervosh). The women get to stay in their shelter because there is one present for them; however, the men are forced to stay in hotel rooms because of limited space. The amount of money being spent keeping the two genders away from each other could instead be spent on building a shelter for men.
For instance, Jeanne Prejean writes, “The Family Place team announced…it will open the first shelter in Dallas for male victims of domestic violence in January 2016” (Prejean). After January 2016, there will officially be one male-only shelter in Dallas, Texas. There could have been many more shelters for men; there is funding for it, as seen above. It is not fair that women have hundreds of shelters across the world, but men only have a limited amount of shelters. In short, by reason of restricted space, men are being sent away from shelters while women are accepted because there is much more space for …show more content…
To illustrate, society depicts men as strong and emotionless, but not all men are like that. Samantha Olson writes, “‘Be a man’ ‘Suck it up’ ‘Don’t cry’ are only a few phrases handpicked from a basket of ego-damaging constructions built into today’s society” (Olson). In other words, Olson is saying that boys have been raised to never be weak and to hide their emotions. Boys are not all macho; they just appear that way because society depicts them like that. They are people as well and need to be protected. Additionally, people may believe that men do not need shelters because no man will have so little pride to ask for help, but that is incorrect. In the article, Battered Men – The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence, it states, “302 [battered] men were surveyed. This study found that between half and two-thirds of the men contacted the police, a [domestic violence] agency, or a [domestic violence] hotline” (Hoff). Approximately 200 of the men asked for help. The men who were abused did not care about their image because they wanted help. Men need more shelters because there are so many of them that need help. To summarize, men can feel the same abuse as woman and need to be protected from