Nonsense. The first women's shelter was established by Erin Pizzey in Chiswick U.K 1971. Pizzey has since gone on to condemn the ideological sexism of the current shelter movement resulting in death threats which saw her in self imposed exile.

All levels of government in Canada subsidise the shelter movement to an estimated 500 million dollars annually. Earl Silverman, who did try to establish a men's shelter in Calgary received no government funding and took his own life when the shelter was lost due to bankruptcy.