Lots of homeless people read magazines/anything they can find. Because they are human beings with intellects and imaginations that need to be fed, even more so perhaps because they have so much to escape. It seems like this lady was like, 'lol even homeless people read Vogue.' But would she have taken the photo if…

Agreed. I remember the youth group who were brought in to do a meal. So they cook it and serve it, under my supervision. Afterwards, we meet downstairs and I debrief them. One of the parents asks me... I can't remember the exact words or anything, but it basically "now tell these kids why they shouldn't even drink or…

Part of my job was to educate these people in a superficial way, with hopes to get them into the intensive classes where the real education happened - with people who were significantly better at that sort of thing than I. Lord knows I'm problematic on my own.

Yeah, I'm sure that was what Christ had in mind when he suggested we keep and help the poor.

At least once a week. For 3 years. And that's just to me.

What kills me sooooooooo fucking much is that they'd have a hundred photos of them. The kitchen was off limits to community members, unless they were volunteering or I asked them to come back there. Same with downstairs where my office was located. Plus, the building wasn't open all afternoon to the public. So there…

Do you realize how many manager-corgi meetings I was in where I was told, "Corgis, you gotta stop losing your shit on the volunteers. I know you hate some of them. God knows we all want to strangle a lot of them. But they bring us a lot of money and your job is to educate them."

"Yesterday, while hanging out at Paris fashion week...Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis snapped and shared this picture of homeless person reading the famous fashion magazine."

Because nothing screams dignity like someone taking a picture of you without permission in order to portray your life situation as a dire absurdity in contrast with the product they're trying to advertise.

I have had grown adults throw tantrums because we wouldn't take photos of them serving the homeless people, nor would we let them photograph the clients. We have a designated group of our regular volunteers who would walk through the meal line up for photographs - and even them, only their hands were photographed.…