apropos:
> _“The heroism performed mainly by men (e.g. firemen) will be #gender neutralised ('firefighters') by the inclusion of a small minority of #women, whereas a much larger proportion of female perpetrators and male victims will be excluded from our highly gendered narratives and policies about sexual and domestic violence. Such cognitive distortions, we believe, are leading to a systematic exaggeration of the negative aspects of men and #masculinity within mainstream culture, and a minimisation of positive aspects. These embedded distortions could be having a significantly harmful impact on the psychological health of #boys and #men and therefore on our society as a whole.”_
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-33/april-2020/gamma-bias-new-theory
@tripu
I'm not sure how to read this, it seems a bland excuse for a previous extremism.
I know very little about psychology, but I don't see this vast gender neutralisation, the firefighter example is particularly bad as firefighters have always been called that way.
I do see a great focus on male sexual and domestic violence, even though this accounts only for a minimal amount of the total crimes. However I do believe this kind of crime is seen in such a bad way that people want to remove it completely from society.
This could indeed shadow women perpetrating these crimes.
I'm curious: do you see “a great focus” on “sexual and domestic violence” where men are the victims?
As for gender neutralisation, I can't provide solid evidence. But once you're aware of it, you notice it on mainstream media and political speeches quite often. For instance, the news articles I mentioned above about a group of dead fishermen (all men).
The other manifestation is an insistence on highlighting the female portion of some bad outcome or tragedy, even when the vast majority of those affected are men. For example, I remember watching pieces on TV specifically about homeless women, never acknowledging that homelessness is a distinctively male problem. Or speeches focused on female literacy and education, at a time when almost every indicator in Western democracies tells us that it's boys and men lagging behind.
@tripu
No, you misunderstood, I meant great focus on men as perpetrators of violence.
I don't know about this fishermens article, I couldn't find it on your profile.
Now that I think more about it, I'm not even that sure that I do correctly understand the meaning of neutralisation.
Regarding focusing on women, I partly do agree with you: I also see an excessive focus on women in media but not that often in tragedies.
I see a beatification, a santification, of women: all Ukrainian soldiers are women, in a group of experts the women will be pointed out as successful, people want a woman prime minister ( just because it's woman, even though they don't have anyone in mind).
Indeed, some things are to be recognised: you can value more a woman that is a CEO of a company, because you know it's more difficult for a woman than for a man to become such.
I personally never heard news or read articles specifically on women homelessness and such.
I did read stuff such as problems of poor women that have to grow a child alone, or the struggle of Indian women for education.
But I do believe that in these cases this is justified, as those problems are specific to women.
