• snooggums
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    513 days ago

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

    • SavvyWolf
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      613 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
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        313 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.