Headlines
The Toronto Star online: "Canadian Woman Soldier killed"
The CBC is reporting that a woman Canadian soldier has been killed in Afghanistan.
CBC online: "Canadian solider killed"
A female soldier from Canada has been killed while serving in Afghanistan, military officials said Wednesday.
Woman soldier anyone? While we're at it, are there are woman doctors in the field? What about male nurses?
Here I was thinking that the word soldier included both men and women.
There's a big difference between stating that the yet unidentified soldier is female and using language implying that all soldiers are men.
That this story is breaking news is no excuse for something like this.
The CBC is reporting that a woman Canadian soldier has been killed in Afghanistan.
CBC online: "Canadian solider killed"
A female soldier from Canada has been killed while serving in Afghanistan, military officials said Wednesday.
Woman soldier anyone? While we're at it, are there are woman doctors in the field? What about male nurses?
Here I was thinking that the word soldier included both men and women.
There's a big difference between stating that the yet unidentified soldier is female and using language implying that all soldiers are men.
That this story is breaking news is no excuse for something like this.
posted by qed at 2:04 p.m.
1 Comments:
SERIOUSLY. I was thinking about this so much after seeing all the newspaper headlines today.
WHY does everything have to mention "FEMALE soldier killed", even below pictures of her?? Well, as you said, apparently "soldier", "nurse", etc etc already have an implied sex! UGH. Also, it's the assumption that it's so much worse because "women are weak and peace loving" and "shouldnt be there anyways!" when one gets killed. BARF
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