As a formerly homeless man, this was so sad to see. Compassion has no gender

I work with public transit where I live and some of the nicest, kindest, down to earth people I’ve met are homeless. I’ve also learned quite a bit from them just by striking up a conversation. They are human. And they are deserving of kindness and compassion.

Not all homeless people are crazy, inappropriate and addicts and not all crazy, inappropriate addicts are homeless. Be careful out there no matter who you are around but don’t shut yourself out from helping those in need as well.

"Idk maybe im too woke" they say while not having compassion for homeless people. So, so evil. Everyone deserves to have a roof over their head.

This is probably not going to be received well here but men need to be better at supporting each other. Women help and support each other all the time everywhere. There a popular post the other day that was just a compilation of women helping other women they don't know just because they are women. How often does that happen with men?

Toxic masculinity teaches men to hide their emotions and pretend they are fine. It teaches us to not reach out to others when we need help. It teaches us to be tough and to look down on men who express their vulnerability. It leads to loneliness, isolation, and destructive habits.

Men need to solve the male loneliness epidemic by dropping the macho facade and opening ourselves up to each other. Men need to create community for men to be vulnerable and open. Demanding that women need to spend emotional energy on men is only making it all worse because now it shifts the blame to women.

People ragebait because it gets attention. Stop giving ragebaiters attention.

Ah yes, because hardship comes with a gender filter. Totally how life works.🙄

Most Americans are 1 paycheck away from homelessness.

This is fucking sad. Capitalism is fucking stupid.

I worked at The Lighthouse Men's Shelter in Indianapolis for 19 months. There was a man there that everyone called "Space"

Space just kind of quit on life after he lost his wife and couldn't find purpose in the day to day toils of the "American Dream"

We'd later discovered that Space had been an extremely successful engineer and sold all of his assets prolonging the life of his wife after she'd been deemed terminally ill. The only thing he had to his name was a parking lot next to Lucas Oil Stadium that he would rent out for parking and tailgating during events.... The man chose homelessness. He wasn't without money. He just didn't care about other people's perception of his existence without his wife with him.....he was also notorious for drying his balls off at the hand dryer next to the sink in the men's bathroom.

Hey, this is so sad, homeless men can struggle to get a job as well. Saying that, there are unique challenges that may come with being a homeless woman, you'll be pushed into prostitution, human trafficking risk, and sexual violence risk will be very high too. Many homeless women are at increased risk. Unfortunately the world comes with a gender filter, yeah.

People that make posts like this don’t give to homeless people at all.