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Engaging security forces to chase women. Do they also give medals for bravery for that?
by gesman 7y ago
Engaging security forces to chase women.
Do they also give medals for bravery for that?
- neilv 7y agoI share your concern and anger. This particular phrasing could sound like reinforcing a historical perception of women as innately weak and needing protection. I prefer to think of it as people needing help due to circumstances, and the circumstances in this case perhaps due in part to such historical perceptions.
- dusbajd 7y agoHmm 200 lb Sudanese fully armed mercenaries vs 120 lb “people” First, the “people” are being prosecuted because they have vaginas - they are women. Second, given the Newtonian consequences of 80lb of fully armed soldier, I think the OPs original sarcasm at their cowardice is not out of place.
- neilv 7y agoI don't think we're disagreeing in what either of us said, but only in whether it's the best idea to invoke historical sexist ideas (by saying simply "women", as if all else is implied) unnecessarily. Especially when we're talking about tragedies that could be direct effects of those kinds of historical ideas, so it should be on our minds.
- threffer 7y agoHeadline: > Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI Parent: > Engaging security forces to chase women I'm sorry, what's the need to rephrase?
- noselasd 7y agoIt might not be a rephrasing of the headline - it might be a summary of the article - that summary seems pretty correct after reading it.
- bad_alloc 7y ago> I share your concern and anger. This particular phrasing could sound like reinforcing a historical perception of [indigenous people/black people/jews/...] as innately weak and needing protection. I prefer to think of it as people needing help due to circumstances, and the circumstances in this case perhaps due in part to such historical perceptions. When the persecution of a certain group of humans is this direct and the consequences of capture so severe, I think the semantics of help are irrelevant until the danger is resolved.
- neilv 7y agoPlease don't misuse square brackets in a quote to say something the person didn't say. We don't want that to become the new destructively illiterate "literally".