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So, I've spent the last few days working at a homeless shelter. This is a women's only shelter, part of a larger group of shelters organised by redacted. In other words, every woman here has chosen to be away from men for whatever reason. These reasons include experiences with domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Sadly, all of this is relevant. *
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In fact a lot of women's shelters are kept word of mouth and word of social worker or police dept for just the reason to keep men away from them. Why would anyone want a man, especially one with this kind of attitude to even have the address of the place.
If I were a volunteer or staying there because I needed the place, I'd be freaking out all over the place at redacted for daring to hire him ONCE let alone twice. Even if he was perfectly polite and good at his job. This is one of the few cases where it's absolutely appropriate to insist on not hiring MEN. He should not have been there last year.
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There have been other successful male volunteers - off the top of my head, a magician, a gentleman from the Samaritans, and an experienced administrator. The shelter is only open for a few days at Christmas, and will be elsewhere next year. The address isn't published, and access to the shelter is referall only - which, I agree, doesn't help when it's given to creepoids like the DJ. Ideally, it'd be wonderful to only have men on-site, but it just isn't practical, since everyone is a volunteer.
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