• JustinA
    171·
    15 days ago

    boys and men / girls and women sounds right to me

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      15 days ago

      ‘Gendered violence against teenage women and girls’ is really clunky. Especially if it needs repeating across paragraphs.

      If there isn’t something, that’s fine.

      • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
        161·
        15 days ago

        “Gendered violence against females” on the other hand sounds a bit too clinical though… Like you’re removing their personhood

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          15 days ago

          If ‘females’ wasn’t used by online sexists to treat women as objects would it sound that way?

          • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
            71·
            15 days ago

            Maybe! I don’t know if “gendered violence against men” also has the same connotations.

            Maybe this is indeed is a case of those people poisoning the term.

            • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
              41·
              15 days ago

              “Don’t forget about gendered violence against boys!” would be a likely response to a statement about men.

              It is absolutely a case of a term being poisoned, which does mean it needs to be treated more carefully but sucks when there isn’t an alternative.