ObjectivityIncarnate

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  • of course they wrote the article about the 25% that showed men were worse off.

    What do you mean “of course”? In the vast, vast majority of cases, female suffering is given more attention and sympathy than male suffering in the media.

    Remember when 11% of killed journalists being women led to a social media campaign from the UN about ‘stop targeting women journalists’?

    Or when 25% of homeless being women was the focus of articles talking about homelessness?

    Or when Boko Haram kidnapping girls generated massive media outrage, while them murdering boys didn’t? Even the headlines would make no effort to even mention the sex of it wasn’t female: you’d see “schoolgirls” or “girls” for the former, but just “children” or “students” for the latter.

    There was widespread outrage about sexism in colleges when women were in the minority of graduates. Today, it’s men that are a significant minority, and no one gives a shit.

    Suicide rates increasing faster among girls than boys is given more attention than the fact that boys are still four times more likely to do it than girls.

    “Of course”, indeed.