Gendered News
Truck flips onto walking woman
Responsible party-goer killed by car
Police name 20-year-old hit by car in Gore
These are actual links to headlines I saw on the Stuff site today. Note that the one headline about a woman being harmed specifies her gender. The two headlines about men being harmed – killed actually – don’t bother to mention they are men. This is a widespread media tendency.
Why does it happen I wonder? I claim that it results from, and amounts to, subtle undervaluing of men’s lives and welfare compared to that for women. Any alternative explanations?
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Alternative:
Global control of the media.
Women have a major global organisation.
http://www.whomakesthenews.org/
Gays and lesbians have a major global organisation also.
I can find the site if it is important. But I have many saved to go through.
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I guess the point is that until men have a movement nothing will change.
FOCUS REMAINS ON DRAMA QUEENS
http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2008/national/domestic-violence/index.html