Something that really grapped my attention the last few months when reading a war/accident news article. Is that they always talk about how many women and children casualties there are but never about the many men who died.

I never really paid much attention to this until I heard my nephew (from 6) ask his older brother (8) why that was. He just said with a straight face that, that is because of that men lives don't matter in conflicts.

My sister in law was shocked when she heard this story from me, and asked her older son how it comes that he has this idea. Apparently he made the conclusion him self. When she asked why/ how he did that answered he that it was because he never heard the men casualties on the news but always the woman and children ones.

But then the question came to my mind. Why is it that we always talk about woman and children but never men in those news articles. To be honest it doesn't really affects me, but apparently it can give young boys the idea that men don't (equaly) matter compared to woman and girls. Isn't that then something what we don't wanna do anymore? I hate to think about the idea that my nephew things that he's les worth then girls in his class all because of this stupid thing that we do when talking about casualties in conflicts.