I've said before numerous times how I hate the "women and children" rhetoric and narrative for how it's blatantly misandrist and exclusionary of men, not only de-valuing their lives but also infantalizing women. However in recent times the phrase has now morphed to "women and girls" and there's just something truly infuriating and cruel about how not even boys are having their rights and safety taken into account, and it's made out that not even a boy who's just learning to live in the world matters. A boy can be a victim of a crime or can even die, and what happened to him apparently won't even matter and his family's grief and sorrow won't be an issue. I despise it so much. It's bad enough for so long men have been treated as not mattering if anything bad happens to them, but now for that to extend to young boys? That's just something truly evil about that.

It might be a stretch to call "women and girls" hate speech, but it sure doesn't promote inclusivity and fairness for sure. It's like being male makes your life worthless and not worth caring about, and it's no major problem if something bad happens.