Just another observation
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2021 4:31 pmMost 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".
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".
But yeah I do suspect there's a bias here in which cucumber season items are considered newsworthy.