| ▲ | delichon 6 hours ago | |
There was a tweet last week from UN Women:
It was removed after being widely mocked. But I think it expresses a common view that if 11% of victims are women, that's a horrible inequity ... against women. | ||
| ▲ | soco 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
How many of the journalists are women? Are those women journalists also going to war zones? The numbers above are pointless without context. | ||
| ▲ | readthenotes1 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I'm reminded of a promotional interview on NPR wherein the woman running a women's aid charity in a Central American country decried the machismo culture because the murder rate has increased for women in the country. When I stopped driving, I looked up the comparative change for men, and it was nearly twice the growth for women. She should have been praising the machismo culture protecting women against the increased violence at a disproportionate rate, but that wouldn't sound good... | ||
| ▲ | 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
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