Chicago Tribune report finds 89.4% of shooting victims are male. The front page headline? "Impact of violence on girls is too often overlooked"

PaisleyBowtie · 2016-12-10T16:55:44+00:00

"They must walk to school through gang battles. They have lost boyfriends and brothers to gunfire. They've seen countless shootings."

Just more "women are the primary victims of war" bullshit, remember people, men getting killed only matters to the extent it affects women. I mean, someone needs to provide for them! And pay those taxes for all the programs that disproportionately help them!

Male lives only matter as a means to an end, look at any government report about male suicide/depression; the economic cost from loss of productivity is always the first or second statistic mentioned. Even if its from the rare person who actully cares about men's suffering for their own sake, they mention its cost very quickly, as economics are the only thing they can use to convince those with power to care about men.

Imnotmrabut · 2016-12-10T16:21:47+00:00

Media Misandry just proves that Patriarchy Theory is rubbish whilst Male Disposability is very much "Reality".

Tedesche · 2016-12-10T19:20:01+00:00

FYI, this is the same paper that just published an article by Christina Hoff Sommers about the legitimacy of men's rights. People ought to contain their criticism to the article, and respect the fact that the paper is providing a balanced perspective in this instance.

unbelievablepeople · 2016-12-10T17:49:17+00:00

One of the reasons I posted this is that I think media bias is an issue that deserves a fuller discussion. I hear some people denying media bias, which I don't buy, but I also hear others dismiss newspapers outright as if there's no value in them at all, which is wrong as well.

There's actually a lot of good reporting in this Chicago Tribune piece -- they researched shootings in Chicago and gave statistics to show how prevalent violence is, and they interviewed a lot of people who have been affected by it. That's all good information to have.

Where the bias comes in is how they chose to present that information. Instead of simply presenting the data to their readers, they chose to highlight the impact on girls and de-emphasize the impact on boys even though their own statistics show that males are nine times as likely as females to get shot.

DarthTyekanik · 2016-12-10T21:53:14+00:00

Because, you know, women are the primary victims of shootings. They lose their husbands, children, parents...

thrway_1000 · 2016-12-10T19:25:43+00:00

https://archive.is/BdO1E

wanked_in_space · 2016-12-10T17:23:10+00:00

Well I don't disagree with them. Female victims are overlooked. The male victims are well known and actively not given a shit about.

Luchadorgreen · 2016-12-11T00:48:46+00:00

In what world is it overlooked? If anything, it's exaggerated.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2016-12-11T05:33:45+00:00

"Asteroid to hit Earth wiping out all life. Women most severely affected."

zfighter18 · 2016-12-11T04:26:03+00:00

That's narcissistic (aka female) personality disorder for you. They only give a shit about themselves.

Reminds me of a post I saw where some cunt whined that there were no women in "saving private ryan", and that there should be, because women were just as affected by the war as men were and they need a way to represent that.

Microsecond · 2016-12-10T23:27:34+00:00

From just a couple paragraphs in:

This year's surge in homicides to levels unseen in two decades shines a light on the risks so many boys and young men face each day in Chicago's toughest neighborhoods. But far less often told or understood are the stories of girls and young women who witness the violence up close or end up in the middle of the conflict themselves.

They are not dismissing the impact that violence has on men and boys, and this is not an article focusing on the topic of violence in Chicago in general. Rather, it is just a single article focusing on the effects of violence on girls in Chicago. Is that really too much? The Chicago Tribune has written many, many other articles on violence in the city, and most of them are indeed focused on male victims and/or perpetrators.

2016-12-10T23:09:34+00:00

Jesus christ.

jeff_the_nurse · 2016-12-11T00:09:06+00:00

I agree that that headline is despicable, but to be fair, we always say that rape against men and boys is overlooked. It is overlooked, but aren't we being kind of hypocritical here?

2016-12-11T03:49:45+00:00

When the hell do we not talk about violence against women as a society? Outside of mrm when do we talk about violence against men? I mean besides when society states that it's actaully the women that suffer when the men in their lives experience violence.

whats_up_doc · 2016-12-11T00:07:43+00:00

...for good reason apparently.

2016-12-11T04:22:30+00:00

They aren't overlooked, they just aren't treated differently. What they really want is for female shooting victims to get different treatment than male victims, treatment as in it's worse because it happened to a girl.

uptokesforall · 2016-12-11T05:13:24+00:00

looks like this is focused on the plight of a specific girl that they were able to interview. Then to create a narrative they looked up whatever info they could to show her plight is all too common.

KamiNekoSama · 2016-12-11T11:04:11+00:00

And yet when you try to bring up something that affects men but mostly (or at least that is how it is portrayed) women it is just taking away the focus from women or it is too small to concern ourselves about it.

2016-12-11T14:43:47+00:00

chicago tribune

meh

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2016-12-12T18:32:12+00:00

Apparently 1:9 women to men means women have it worse. Which means they matter 10x more than men (or more).

I've yet to hear any feminist criticize the very real empathy gap the way the constantly whine about their fictitious wage gap (for equal work!)

dog_baby · 2016-12-11T01:02:26+00:00

In defense of the reporting, your explainer is a little inaccurate. This looks like a side piece to the main story about the statistics, not the central story.

Tgunner192 · 2016-12-10T18:51:40+00:00

Chicago sounds like a dangerous place, maybe they should outlaw guns.

Ultimate_Failure · 2016-12-11T00:04:31+00:00

What percentage of shooting perpetrators are male?

Title	Chicago Tribune report finds 89.4% of shooting victims are male. The front page headline? "Impact of violence on girls is too often overlooked"
Author	unbelievablepeople
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Date	December 10, 2016 4:05 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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