Honestly this cartoon fucking sucks. Something like 80% of homeless people are adult men like the first panel. The three other panels essentially serve the message “Did you know some homeless people are women and children??? Do you care NOW?”
I was homeless in 2012 for about half a year. It was quite the eye openening experience. Most of us hid that we were homeless the best we could so the cops wouldn’t falsely arrest us for being “drunk in public”. Lot’s of people had cars but couldn’t afford gas. Roughly 80% of us never pan handled, and were as clean as we could be. I learned to sleep in the park during the day and keep moving at night.
What if being patronizing is the point? What if that was meant to send a message? What if it’s more important to protect the 20% than to worry about the “80%” that might be taking advantage of the system?
I meant your actual point. I’m skipping the dumb internet fight bits. The third sentence in your message. Who said anything about “taking advantage of the system” because I surely did not.
My point is that your point of why you don’t like the comic is dumb. Unless myself, and everyone else, is completely misunderstanding your grievance against it.
People should care about homelessness, and their argument is often “it’s 80% men” (your point) but that’s a short-sighted perspective on top of lacking compassion. And that’s the whole point of the comic. It shouldn’t have to come down to explaining to people that there’s more to homelessness than the statistics.
My point is that I find it disgusting how society doesn’t seem to give a shit about homeless men but they do care about homeless women and children. Homeless women and children seem to be the main focus for most people seeing as there are so many more resources only available to homeless women and children than there are to homeless men despite the fact that the VAST majority are adult men. Society has a sickening lack of sympathy for homeless men, to the point where you can’t get some people to care about the homelessness crisis in the slightest until you inform them that some homeless people are women and children. This comic is a demonstration of that phenomenon. The comic essentially says “actually, you should care about homelessness because they aren’t all just men”
Gotta call a spade a spade. Based on your later responses, you come off as a person who really needs this directness because reading between the lines is not something you’re good at.
Christ, you actually can’t find a way to communicate without patronizing. I literally do not care what you have to say about my character or personality or whatever, it’s got very little to do with the actual substance of my comment.
I don’t think that the comic is about the age/gender. I think it’s about the different situations that people find themselves, and to remind people that they probably interact with homeless people more often than they realize.
I was “panel 4” (had a job, but not a bed) as an adult male working at a hardware store.
I didn’t take it as gender. I think the point is that we are in the age of the working homeless. You can have a job and not be able to afford a place to live. It’s not just someone you might immediately think of with the now “old” ideas of what it means to be homeless.
Honestly this cartoon fucking sucks. Something like 80% of homeless people are adult men like the first panel. The three other panels essentially serve the message “Did you know some homeless people are women and children??? Do you care NOW?”
I was homeless in 2012 for about half a year. It was quite the eye openening experience. Most of us hid that we were homeless the best we could so the cops wouldn’t falsely arrest us for being “drunk in public”. Lot’s of people had cars but couldn’t afford gas. Roughly 80% of us never pan handled, and were as clean as we could be. I learned to sleep in the park during the day and keep moving at night.
Hey man, what a weird take.
Just what you to know that not everything is a personal attack directly at you.
Surely you can find a way to communicate this without being patronizing…
What if being patronizing is the point? What if that was meant to send a message? What if it’s more important to protect the 20% than to worry about the “80%” that might be taking advantage of the system?
Don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m not sure what your point is. Can you rephrase and/or elaborate please?
Your first comment was toxic as fuck. The other user was saying that while being patronizing, because toxic comments don’t deserve respect.
I meant your actual point. I’m skipping the dumb internet fight bits. The third sentence in your message. Who said anything about “taking advantage of the system” because I surely did not.
My point is that your point of why you don’t like the comic is dumb. Unless myself, and everyone else, is completely misunderstanding your grievance against it.
People should care about homelessness, and their argument is often “it’s 80% men” (your point) but that’s a short-sighted perspective on top of lacking compassion. And that’s the whole point of the comic. It shouldn’t have to come down to explaining to people that there’s more to homelessness than the statistics.
My point is that I find it disgusting how society doesn’t seem to give a shit about homeless men but they do care about homeless women and children. Homeless women and children seem to be the main focus for most people seeing as there are so many more resources only available to homeless women and children than there are to homeless men despite the fact that the VAST majority are adult men. Society has a sickening lack of sympathy for homeless men, to the point where you can’t get some people to care about the homelessness crisis in the slightest until you inform them that some homeless people are women and children. This comic is a demonstration of that phenomenon. The comic essentially says “actually, you should care about homelessness because they aren’t all just men”
Gotta call a spade a spade. Based on your later responses, you come off as a person who really needs this directness because reading between the lines is not something you’re good at.
Christ, you actually can’t find a way to communicate without patronizing. I literally do not care what you have to say about my character or personality or whatever, it’s got very little to do with the actual substance of my comment.
I don’t think that the comic is about the age/gender. I think it’s about the different situations that people find themselves, and to remind people that they probably interact with homeless people more often than they realize.
I was “panel 4” (had a job, but not a bed) as an adult male working at a hardware store.
I didn’t take it as gender. I think the point is that we are in the age of the working homeless. You can have a job and not be able to afford a place to live. It’s not just someone you might immediately think of with the now “old” ideas of what it means to be homeless.