• snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    ‘Gendered violence against teenage women and girls’ is really clunky. Especially if it needs repeating across paragraphs.

    If there isn’t something, that’s fine.

    • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
      141·
      6 days ago

      “Gendered violence against females” on the other hand sounds a bit too clinical though… Like you’re removing their personhood

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        If ‘females’ wasn’t used by online sexists to treat women as objects would it sound that way?

        • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
          71·
          6 days ago

          Maybe! I don’t know if “gendered violence against men” also has the same connotations.

          Maybe this is indeed is a case of those people poisoning the term.

          • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            6 days ago

            “Don’t forget about gendered violence against boys!” would be a likely response to a statement about men.

            It is absolutely a case of a term being poisoned, which does mean it needs to be treated more carefully but sucks when there isn’t an alternative.