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[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 16 points 3 months ago

boys and men / girls and women sounds right to me

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months 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.social 15 points 3 months ago

"Gendered violence against females" on the other hand sounds a bit too clinical though... Like you're removing their personhood

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 6 points 3 months 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.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months 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.

this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2024
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