I guess we just disagree on this for the most part.
It's the news, come on. They're always looking to be sensational, that's how they sell papers and get viewers. It's their JOB. ANY angle that they can use to make something more exciting, they will. There's FAR worse things that they do than any kind of gender discrimination, really.
Men commit more crime, a LOT more, so when talking about your local news, you very well may not have a female that commits a newsworthy crime for a considerable time. Men, get your shit together then!! That's men's problem, why are they responsible for so much crime? You should be mad at those men for giving men a bad rep, not be mad at the news for reporting it or at women for not committing an equal amount of crime!
A note about rape...you may forget or not realize it, but men are the main perpetrators of rape against their own fellow men/boys. When you hear of a male who was raped there's a 99% chance it was by another MAN. Women account for exactly 1% of rapists, and of those rapes, not all were even perpetrated on men. Most female rapists are guilty of statutory rape, which is WORLDS different than forcible rape. Don't get me wrong, that's not to say it's OK AT ALL!! I look at people (men AND women) who commit statutory rape the same, someone who commits forcible rape is in a whole different league. The mere amount of female rapists explain why you hardly ever hear about it. They can't report something that just doesn't happen. They DO report it when it does happen, because it's sensational, but it happens so infrequently so, what do you expect?
I went to CNN website this morning, I never usually read that site but just to go see what they had on their front page.
Today in the news, Andrea Yates (murdered her 5 kids about 10 yrs ago). That's the worst criminal on there for today, and she's a woman.
There's also a story, the only one that praises a specific gender in the article title, the title of the article is "California BOY is a cooking TV star".
The other article of praise is also about a male, although it doesn't reveal his gender in the title, it reads "Doctor who planted 750K trees saluted". You find out he's a man when looking at the story.
Another crime story, the title reads "Police:Wash (Washington) murder suspect in bunker". It's a man, who killed his wife and daughter. But it doesn't say that in the title, it's not like it said 'man' did this horrible thing. You find that out if you read the article, just as it is with most stories.
The rest of the stories are pretty boring and generic, but really I don't see anything there that is sexist in any way. In fact it even disproves this guy, I think.
It's the news, come on. They're always looking to be sensational, that's how they sell papers and get viewers. It's their JOB. ANY angle that they can use to make something more exciting, they will. There's FAR worse things that they do than any kind of gender discrimination, really.
Men commit more crime, a LOT more, so when talking about your local news, you very well may not have a female that commits a newsworthy crime for a considerable time. Men, get your shit together then!! That's men's problem, why are they responsible for so much crime? You should be mad at those men for giving men a bad rep, not be mad at the news for reporting it or at women for not committing an equal amount of crime!
A note about rape...you may forget or not realize it, but men are the main perpetrators of rape against their own fellow men/boys. When you hear of a male who was raped there's a 99% chance it was by another MAN. Women account for exactly 1% of rapists, and of those rapes, not all were even perpetrated on men. Most female rapists are guilty of statutory rape, which is WORLDS different than forcible rape. Don't get me wrong, that's not to say it's OK AT ALL!! I look at people (men AND women) who commit statutory rape the same, someone who commits forcible rape is in a whole different league. The mere amount of female rapists explain why you hardly ever hear about it. They can't report something that just doesn't happen. They DO report it when it does happen, because it's sensational, but it happens so infrequently so, what do you expect?
I went to CNN website this morning, I never usually read that site but just to go see what they had on their front page.
Today in the news, Andrea Yates (murdered her 5 kids about 10 yrs ago). That's the worst criminal on there for today, and she's a woman.
There's also a story, the only one that praises a specific gender in the article title, the title of the article is "California BOY is a cooking TV star".
The other article of praise is also about a male, although it doesn't reveal his gender in the title, it reads "Doctor who planted 750K trees saluted". You find out he's a man when looking at the story.
Another crime story, the title reads "Police:Wash (Washington) murder suspect in bunker". It's a man, who killed his wife and daughter. But it doesn't say that in the title, it's not like it said 'man' did this horrible thing. You find that out if you read the article, just as it is with most stories.
The rest of the stories are pretty boring and generic, but really I don't see anything there that is sexist in any way. In fact it even disproves this guy, I think.
Gotta go for now but I'll be back in a bit.