This is the name of a book I saw advertised at my bookstore job just the other day. It's by Dalal Mawad. It documents the Beirut port explosion that occured on August 4th of 2020, and, try not to get upset, it's about, you guessed it... the effect it had on women and girls. And as usual, nothing about men and boys. I'm really fed up with this. Not to take away from women and girls who were affected by those events, but men and boys also were as well and as usual, they're being completely ignored and neglected.

I hate this, how everything is always made into a "women most affected" issue. Why even make this incident a gender issue? Men/boys and women/girls alike were affected but as always, only one group is made to matter. It reminds me of the same BS after the Ukraine and Israel invasions where we were seeing and hearing about the women and children but nothing about the men, even though they've also been killed and brutalized in equal numbers. It's so infuriating, always neglecting and ignoring male victims and making everything into a contest as to who suffers what more. Ugh.