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minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·10 hours 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.
minus-squareSavvyWolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·10 hours ago“Gendered violence against females” on the other hand sounds a bit too clinical though… Like you’re removing their personhood
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·9 hours agoIf ‘females’ wasn’t used by online sexists to treat women as objects would it sound that way?
minus-squareSavvyWolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·9 hours agoMaybe! 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.
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·9 hours 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.
‘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.
“Gendered violence against females” on the other hand sounds a bit too clinical though… Like you’re removing their personhood
If ‘females’ wasn’t used by online sexists to treat women as objects would it sound that way?
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.
“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.