"We hear, "women and children" all the time, but don't exclude the men also being harmed, their lives matter too. It's time to acknowledge: the people which Israel, with the aid and support of their allies are slaugtering, are noncombatant men, women, children, and babies."

Found this post on Twitter/X and felt this was worth sharing. A quite scathing and spot-on criticism of the clearly misandrist and exclusionary "women and children" rhetoric and why it's also de-valuing to male lives. I know I tend to post this a lot but feel it's worth doing so with how rampant and enforced this rhetoric is and how male lives are constantly de-valued and made to not matter. It feels like progress when more and more people are waking up to this fact. "Women and children" is a a horribly misandrist and outdated term that needs to be retired. I'm a mostly liberal and left-wing person and hate when the lives, safety and welfare of men and boys are constantly downplayed and marginalized so much and this is unfortunately a major reason fewer and fewer males are identifying as left-wing. It's very much liberal to acknowledge that men and boys matter just as much as women and girls, and are equally deserving of being protected. Hell, it's not even liberal or conservative, it's plain common sense.