• snooggums@lemmy.world
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      4 hours 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.

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        4 hours ago

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

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          4 hours ago

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

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            4 hours 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.

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              3 hours 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.