Just another observation

[lady_*nix]

Most news media pretty regularly run "good Samaritan" articles like this:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/ ... ng-swimmer

What's interesting to me is that it's almost always about a man rescuing a woman. IDK what the statistical bias towards that IRL is, but I suspect it's a lot less than what I see in the news.

A while ago I think I mentioned here that articles about the deaths of female soldiers are tangibly different than those about the deaths of male soldiers - the framing is more "what a tragedy it is to lose a beautiful young woman" instead of the martyrdom framing of "he died for his country". This feels like more of same, honestly.

Edit: like to be clear I'm not saying running articles like this is a bad thing (LOL no). More that the way they're curated has a serious undercurrent to me of "women should be grateful for how we protect them", and maybe also of "women have to rely on men because they can't rely on each other".

[Rommie]

I wish they had the saying in English, but in both Hungarian and Dutch there's a saying for this type of journalism this time of year, called "cucumber season." Typically relates to August (when cucumbers are ripe), when nothing is happening because everyone is on holiday so there are tropes no one had to think about, or something inconsequential super blown up beyond reason.

Anyway, might be a different season but this does scream "cucumber season" at me.

[lady_*nix]

"Cucumber season", I love it. But yeah I do suspect there's a bias here in which cucumber season items are considered newsworthy.

[code monkey]

I wish they had the saying in English, but in both Hungarian and Dutch there's a saying for this type of journalism this time of year, called "cucumber season." Typically relates to August (when cucumbers are ripe), when nothing is happening because everyone is on holiday so there are tropes no one had to think about, or something inconsequential super blown up beyond reason.

Anyway, might be a different season but this does scream "cucumber season" at me.

I believe that in the us it's known as the silly season.