Why is CBC interviewing a man about a woman’s shelter?

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Driving home, I was listening to CBC interview some  guy about Anderson House. They are upgrading the kitchen and other facilities.

Reporter Karen Mair asked him “What is it like for women to have a place like Anderson House.”

“What would he know what it’s like to have Anderson House?” asked the woman who was driving me.

“He’s a man. He could never know what it’s like to be an abused woman.”

Right, I thought to myself.

It’s the same for people with disabilities. We are constantly being mis-represented by government officials, professionals and non-government organizations who are not members of the disability community.

Men cannot understand what women endure. Neither can the able understand the disabled.

To which we say, Nothing About Us Without Us.