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Interesting that The Guardian is leading the way in finally having non-gendered headlines, i.e. not saying "Female physicist recognized 75 years after discovery
by achrono 2y ago
Interesting that The Guardian is leading the way in finally having non-gendered headlines, i.e. not saying "Female physicist recognized 75 years after discovery" or "Rosemary Fowler, 98-year old physicist, recognized 75 years after discovery".
This will hopefully pave the way for truer equality in that the most common reaction reading this headline would probably be "oh no, why has this physicist not gotten the recognition" rather than the latter, which is more polarising -- it leads to either "outrageous, look here is one more neglected woman!" or "here we go, one more feminist complaint".
- DoneWithAllThat 2y agoThey didn’t have to “gender” it, it’s the Guardian. They don’t write uplifting feel good stories about straight white men.
- fsckboy 2y agoI'm sorry you told me, I'd have never known. I didn't click on the story because I didn't want to read about a 98 yo who calls themselves a physicist and doesn't have a PhD. Yes, I'm sure there have been some, but I would have already heard of them if it was a good story.
- b3nny 2y ago[dead]
- google234123 2y agoI knew what the gender was before opening the link b/c I know how media works in 2024
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoNah, probably wasn't them as there was a Press Association headline being syndicated around for a few days with the same format (so good on Press Association for that)
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