Why is gender not highlighted when it reflect poorly on character of women and is highlighted when reflecting on the biases of men.

iovercomesadness · 2020-10-04T18:24:54+00:00

Same thing happens with race unfortunately

-Moment_OF_Tangency- · 2020-10-04T19:08:36+00:00

Being a woman is like going to a Buffet, they pick n choose what they like and leave the rest for us 'lowly' men!

Cyb3rd31ic_Citiz3n · 2020-10-05T10:12:25+00:00

Journalism student here.

There could be several reasons for the authors choice to use the descriptor 'college students' rather than 'women'.

When coming up with a headline you need to catch the attention of the reader in as few words as possible, and to hold their attention you need to paint a dynamic image in their mind with those words.

The author has decided to tie this story into one of previous events from 7 years ago. Both incidents involve college age students.

Whilst both these incidents are involving young adult women using the descriptor 'college student' tells you more about the individuals than 'women'. For example, from the term 'college student' alone we have an idea their appromiment age, their level of world experience, their level of recklessness and other presumed characteristics about the individual which are more likely to have affected the situation rather than their sex.

There COULD also be the fact that women are more closely associated with social media, selfies and the like so using the term women to sell the situation is somewhat of a muted point in the eyes of the author, where as their student status isn't.

If you want to explore the concept of men being more closely tied by their sex in news headlines than women you'd need a meta study to show this, as I cannot think of examples where using the broad descriptor of 'man' is over-used unless the author knows little about the individual in question that's relievant or striking.

Greg_W_Allan · 2020-10-05T10:31:19+00:00

From II. "Including Women," Excluding Men - Effacing the Male by Adam Jones

A second strategy is displacement. Here, the male is defined by some trait or label other than gender -- even when gender obviously, or apparently, is decisive in shaping the experience or predicament being described. During the Kosovo war, typical displacement terminology included designations such as "Kosovars," "ethnic Albanians," "bodies," "victims," and "people." In this context, consider Daniel Williams' report in The Washington Post on the mass murder at Istok prison, a facility bombed by NATO planes in late May 1999. After the last of three bombing raids, the Serbs paraded 19 male corpses before western media, declaring that they were the bodies of prisoners killed by NATO. It now appears likely that many of these men, along with up to 100 others, were massacred by the Serbs in one of the war's larger acts of gendercide. Here is how Williams reported the Serbs' propaganda show:

Bodies of dead prisoners were shown to reporters lying around the prison courtyard Saturday [22 May], and on Monday [24 May] another group of corpses inside a foyer entrance to a cellblock. ... Despite the presence of 1,000 mostly ethnic Albanian prisoners, [NATO] bombed it twice Saturday and once early Sunday. No one seemed to take into account the possible extra danger to the prisoners ... 19 bodies of prisoners lay in and around the courtyard, and on Monday those bodies lay in the same spots ... An inspecting magistrate said the bodies were left outside because he had not had time to carry out his work, what with all the bombing. ... Then there was the new group of dead on display Monday ... Twenty-five bodies in the foyer, some lined up on top of one another domino-style, many with streaks of blood on their bodies ... These corpses were not dusty. ... No one seemed to know why the 19 Saturday bodies were left outside, but ... (Williams, 1999, emphasis added.)

There was precisely one reference to "men" in the story: to the "masked [Serb] men with rifles" hovering around the facility. Males as agents of violence were visible, and gendered; as victims, they were effaced from the discourse.

docb30tn · 2020-10-05T20:39:47+00:00

Wahmans can do no wrong according to 'some people'.

idrac1966 · 2020-10-05T02:11:50+00:00

What's wrong with this article? It isn't sexist or inflammatory in any way.

Your problem it seems is that you are pissed that they didn't make a point of blaming the reckless behavior of these women on their entire gender because you think they would have done so if it were men? Well, here is a link to a related article linked on that page describing a similar incident involving a man, and it is also very reasonable, neutral and gender is barely even mentioned: https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-plummets-death-falling-branch-cliff-posing-picture/story?id=73306917

Seriously OP, you are manufacturing outrage and grasping at straws.

Title	Why is gender not highlighted when it reflect poorly on character of women and is highlighted when reflecting on the biases of men.
Author	benderXX
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Date	October 4, 2020 4:32 PM UTC (5 years ago)
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