"Of all journalists killed in 2021, 11% were women."

a-man-from-earth · 2022-11-04T20:32:58+00:00

Did they even consider that this could weirdly be a sign of progress? This could be due to more women working in journalism, and more women getting dangerous assignments, just like men.

And did they even do any research on whether these women were targeted for their gender? Because to me it is not obvious that this is a gender issue.

It would be way better (and avoid a head-in-ass PR disaster) to simply call for not targetting journalists in general.

AnFGhoster · 2022-11-05T00:41:39+00:00

When men die it's a statistic; when women die it's a tragedy.

Peptocoptr · 2022-11-04T21:12:31+00:00

The comments bring me hope.

Delicious-Tea-6718 · 2022-11-04T23:12:05+00:00

All the replies to the tweet where like :WTF??" I would think it was satire if it wasn't from "UN women" account

CoffeeBoom · 2022-11-05T12:04:02+00:00

This made the round on another sub I'm in, and there was a very interesting (and damning of the UN) on there, from u/KxPbmjLI :

Misandry is everywhere, it's just invisible to most people. we're conditioned like it doesn't exist and that only women can be the victims of anything.

Here's another UN banger

and a study which highlights a lot of the problems within the UN and WHO.

Males fare worse than females on many health outcomes, but more attention, particularly at a national level, is given to women’s issues. This apparent paradox might be explained by gamma bias or a similar gender bias construct. The purpose of the current paper is to present six streams of evidence that illustrate a bias against men’s issues within the United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO). First, the UN’s sustainable development goal on ‘gender equality’ is exclusive to females. Second, the UN observes nine International Days for women’s issues/achievements and one day for men’s issues/achievements. Third, the UN operates 69 Twitter accounts dedicated to women’s issues, culminating in 328,251 tweets since 2008. The UN does not operate a Twitter account for men’s issues. Fourth, female words (e.g., ‘women’) appear more frequently than male words (e.g., ‘men’) in documents archived in the UN and WHO databases, indicating more attention to women’s issues. Fifth, in WHO reports where similar use of male and female words might be expected (e.g., gender and health reports), female words appear more frequently. Sixth, more female than male words appear in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, with articles on women’s health more frequently non-original research (e.g., editorials). Overall, because the UN and WHO are the causal agents directly responsible for the outcomes assessed, the findings reveal a bias against men’s issues within these organisations.

Some more

the UN preferring treatment and help for women in the ebola outbreak with no evidence https://recalculatingthegenderwar.tumblr.com/post/112673371576/heforshe-in-the-3rd-world-why-the-un-practices

and again in haiti, only giving supplies to women

https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/iulu8l/the_un_is_responsible_for_hundreds_of_thousands/

misandry is just such a blackpill, it's a never ending depressing rabit hole of which nobody cares about. not men nor women

LakiL_ · 2022-11-05T11:36:47+00:00

Quick Google search got me other interesting numbers...

You might be wondering: what is the ratio of journalists? Well, reporters are 55% women.

Violence against men is so normalized in our DNA that absurdo things like this are ok.

nineteenletterslong_ · 2022-11-04T22:19:20+00:00

they're being targeted by people with very bad aim

Even_Amphibian7240 · 2022-11-05T05:16:41+00:00

I could understand if there was evidence of a disproportionate rise in female journalists being killed and that they were specifically targeted because they were women but from what I can see neither of these are the case.

politicsthrowaway230 · 2022-11-05T13:45:36+00:00

They're getting ratiod in the comments, I'm not too worried. But yes it's very drole when people bring up that men also suffer from a problem that's traditionally thought a woman's problem then get accused of whataboutism, yet we see stuff like this where vast female minorities are emphasised over male ones. (I've even seen someone say "just because something mainly effects men, doesn't mean it's a man's issue, which is frankly hilarious considering the spin often put on things)

If you cut out "stop targeting female journalists", I would think this is perfectly valid if people talked about journalists being killed as if it's only ever men, (this is where "men get raped too" is an acceptable rebuttal for example) but this would seem like a very weird accusation? I'm not sure if this happens. If it does, then it'd be a valid point to make. But saying "stop targeting female journalists" and leaving it at that is frankly disgusting, the implication that you don't really care if journalists die provided they're not women is horrible. "Stop killing journalists" is enough.

Sometimes you can't get a gendered spin on a situation in favour of your favoured gender, and that's ok. There are many things that disproportionately effect women, and many things that disproportionately effect men. We need an even-handed approach where we can discuss both honestly, and not try to spin it in the opposite direction.

beeen_there · 2022-11-04T20:16:50+00:00

UN could be a fantastic organisation if it was actually democratic (one member, one vote) and had agency (teeth).

Much like democracy generally.... (the concept, not the illusion)

But, as is, identity politics obscures the grim reality.

As designed.

loveandmagic222 · 2022-11-05T16:40:46+00:00

It's a women's organization, of course they will stand up for women, just like men's organizations will stand up for men..it's nothing against men

NeonFizzyXD13 · 2022-11-04T20:39:41+00:00

It's a woman's organization page, it would make sense for them to do that. It's not meant for us.