I'm finalising a journal research paper which compares the media reporting of gender-based crimes committed by Boko Haram (as in the group selected victims based on gender). In my research of the media and relevant academic literature, so much attention was paid to female victims of kidnappings, while the normative massacring of civilian boys and men (while equally sparing females) typically had their gender concealed using non-gendered terms like farmers, students, etc. Thousands of males have been selected for gendered kidnapping and killings yet only the academic scholarship about the gendered crimes of Boko Haram focus exclusively on females.

Out of curiosity I asked ChatGPT and Bard some questions. In my view, they reflect the same systemic biases.

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With some additional prompting. The attacks on schools, that implied the boys were mistreated. They were more often than not actually doused with petrol and set alight, hacked to death with machetes, and massacred. It was also not uncommon for girls to be sent home rather than kidnapping, while leaving the boys to be murdered. The kidnapping of the girls in Chibok was shocking partly because it was a new way of responding to schoolgirls from the group.

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