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> News agencies rarely hold their own writers accountable, especially in tech, where misogyny and misandry thrive, and where personal attacks generate headlines
by tomp 12y ago
> News agencies rarely hold their own writers accountable, especially in tech, where misogyny and misandry thrive, and where personal attacks generate headlines.
We've reached a new low in name-calling and FUD-spreading if one feels the need to use both misogyny and misandry in the same statement. At least, I cannot think of any reason not to use "people-hating" instead other than for dramatic effect (eliciting strong emotions from the reader).
- sp332 12y agoSome are misogynist, some are misandrist. Not both at the same time.
- lotharbot 12y agoThere are those who identify as neither male nor female, and who furthermore are biased against both. (That's probably not what the article was talking about, but it is theoretically possible.)
- lotharbot 12y agoI would like to note that I'm not accusing all people in that category of bias, only noting that it's a phenomenon that exists. Misogyny and misandry are not as incompatible of ideas as they seem. (For those who think this observation is downvote-worthy, I'd love an explanation.)
- thirdtruck 12y agoExpecting men to adhere to the "burly, hairy bread-winner" stereotype is misandristic in the same way that expecting women to "stay in the kitchen" is misogynistic, and those expectations often correlate. They're both cases of holding people to artificial standards.
- al2o3cr 12y ago"I cannot think of any reason not to use "people-hating" instead other than for dramatic effect" Same reason you wouldn't shorten "Bob and Santa Claus" to "two people": the second subject is a childish fantasy utterly unrelated to reality...