Male Privilege?

I posted the following on Reddit as a comment concerning homelessness.

This source is has total amounts for transitional/sheltered and does not include including chronic/unsheltered. Transitional Homeless:

Men accounted for 63.7% of the adults who used emergency shelters or transitional housing over a 12-month period.
Adults in families that are in emergency shelters or transitional housing are predominantly women (79.6%) whereas individual adults without children are predominantly men (72.7%).

From HUD's 2009 annual report, an offical acknowledgement why women are more likely to be sheltered while homeless

Single men who are poor may be more vulnerable to homelessness because of large gaps in the Unemployment Insurance program and because the largest safety net programs, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Social Security, are for families or elderly people. The share of unemployed workers receiving unemployment insurance has declined in recent decades and the gap may be particularly perilous for men because poor women are likely to be accompanied by children and thus eligible for TANF. Adult poor men also have higher rates of substance abuse than women, but substance abuse has not been a categorical eligibility criterion for SSI since 1996. Thus, some women may fall through one social safety net but be caught by another; men may miss them all. See the 2008 Annual Homeless Assessment Report. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington D.C. 14 The share of individual sheltered homeless men reported in the HMIS may be artificially high. First, the HMIS data do not include adults served by domestic violence providers, most of whom are women, because domestic violence providers are prohibited by the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (reauthorized in 2000 and 2005) from participating in HMIS. Second, some shelters have policies prohibiting men over a certain age from sleeping in family shelters, requiring men and teenage boys to stay at men’s shelters alone.

And so what about the undsheltered:

On a single night in January 2009, there were an estimated 643,067 sheltered and unsheltered homeless people nationwide. More than 6 in 10 people who were homeless at a single point-in-time were in emergency shelters or transitional housing programs, while 37 percent were unsheltered on the “street” or in other places not meant for human habitation.

That equals about 240,000 people on a typical night that are unsheltered. Approxemently 83% of them are adult male, with an additional 8-10% being boys under the age of 18. That means roughly 90% of the unsheltered homeless population are males, or about 204,000 males and 36,000 females

Nearly two thirds of the people homeless on a single night were homeless as individuals (63 percent), while more than a third (37 percent) were homeless as part of a family. Family members were much less likely than individuals to be unsheltered. Only 21 percent of all homeless family members were unsheltered on the night of the point-in-time count, while almost half of homeless individuals were unsheltered.
People who are homeless by themselves are very different from those who are homeless with children. Sheltered individuals are overwhelmingly male. More than three quarters are over 30, more than 10 percent are veterans, and more than 40 percent have a disability. In contrast, adults in sheltered homeless families are overwhelmingly female, most are under age 31, and very few are veterans or have a disability.

A U of M study shows that this means, at least up in the late 1990's, 83% of unsheltered homeless were men, which would be about 188,000 adult men a night vs about 55,000 were either adult females or people under the age of 18, which is about 22% according to HUD. Of those under the age of 18, the numbers are about 60/40 male - female, meaning an additional 8,000 of those 55,000 are boys. Between 80-85% of unsheltered homless are men, seems to be the typical range found in most government and University studies.
And here is another interesting tidbit on HUD's study about males/females in poverty:

Gender of Adults. Most sheltered homeless individuals are men. In 2009, 71 percent of all sheltered individuals were adult men and only 25 percent were adult women staying alone. Assuming that most homeless persons are poor before using a shelter, the high rate of men among individuals suggests that for every 14 men living by themselves with incomes below the poverty line, 1 is likely to access a homeless shelter at some time during the year. Only 1 of every 35 women living alone in poverty access the homeless shelter system. By comparison, adults who become homeless together with children are usually, but not always, women. In 2009, 79.6 percent of adults in families with children were women. Women in families with incomes below the poverty line are 2 times more likely to use a shelter than their male counterparts.

Furthermore, this study is indicating that there are actually about 250,000 people on any given night that are homeless. Yet what makes news? The rise in female homeless vets, like here and here. Of course a rise in any group becoming homeless is troubling, but media knows what pulls on people's heart strings. Instead of acknowledging the massive discrepincies in male/female homelessness, which HUD has admitted is due to the vast number of programs geared towards women (which most can be traced back to direct activist lobbying by feminist organizations), Michelle Obama is spending her time building houses for homeless females.

And ya wonder why men are starting to wake up the realization that male privilege is a nasty little lie, which has become so throgouly engrained in our society and culture. Yes, CEO's and the top 1% of the super rich are men by a disproportionate amount, but a disproportionate number of the bottom of society are men. Does anyone really think the top 1-2% of men really give a shit about all the men at the bottom of society? Yet we keep spending more tax dollars and more college funds looking solely at the problems women face, and hardly a fucking dime on the problems men face. Feminists talk about glass ceilings, so I want to talk about 4 walls and a cot.