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How does the gender of the person who watched/recorded this matter so much that the author had to put it in the title?
by ubersync 6y ago
How does the gender of the person who watched/recorded this matter so much that the author had to put it in the title?
- midasuni 6y agoWould you write “person” instead?
- PartiallyTyped 6y ago> 'It just blew fire': A passenger watched as an engine fell apart on flight 328
- ubersync 6y agoHow about "a passenger"?
- romski 6y agoHow does the island residency of the person matter so much either.
- young_unixer 6y agoHow does the flight number matter so much either.
- dehrmann 6y agoLocal news always reports this.
- evgen 6y agoI am surprised they did not manage to put her age in the headline, hometown, gender, and age seem to be the common ID for small newspapers.
- stefan_ 6y agoIt's HawaiiNewsNow and they are having a fucking interview with her. What's wrong with you people? The title is her introduction!
- cjbenedikt 6y agoAgreed, the discussions on HN are getting ever more ridiculous.
- dehrmann 6y agoI guess it doesn't, but it is useful for English pronouns later on. I'm curios what's idiomatic in languages without gendered pronouns. It'd be different if it called out her race. Also, "Florida man" is a meme.
- ysavir 6y agoIt doesn't matter to the content, but generally speaking, adding specificity to a story makes it sound more real and immediate to a general audience.
- true_religion 6y agoTitles are kind of about enticing readers while explicitly not giving away information that matters a lot. So in this case the island name, gender, and flight number are all just part of the tease.
- dang 6y ago"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yuppie_scum 6y agoRelax, francis
- rsynnott 6y ago“[Place] [man|woman]” is a pretty standard, bordering on cliche, method of writing a headline.