Defined by Grandmother status

[Mountainpika]

So often on the news, women are defined as '64 year old grandmother Jane Brown....' (or whatever name and age they are).
Why? It's irrelevant unless it's directly something to do with their grandchildren.
Men aren't defined as '62 year old grandfather John Brown' etc..

Mountain Pika, 73 year old grandmother, married to 77 year old grandfather.

I agree. Women are always mothers or grandmothers.

Men are whatever their job is.

This annoys me so much. Literally just read an article on the local news page which referred a woman as a 'mum of 2'. No age. No name. Nothing else, just her motherhood status and number of kids. What would they call her if she didn't have kids? The kids weren't even relevant to the story!! 😡

Yup. Always get it with women as "mum of.."
I HATE it!

It's not just grandmothers - women have throughout history often been defined in relation to other people rather than just as themselves. Mother, wife, sister...

Maybe we've moved on a little bit since the headlines below from the 60s... but how many newspaper articles about the most famous Oxford scientist of 2020/2021 manage to refrain from mentioning her triplets?

Yes, this is bloody annoying.
My friend was in a local paper for doing something really good.
They wrote mother of 3, name, then what she did.
It's how they describe criminals.

@GypsyLee

Yes, this is bloody annoying. My friend was in a local paper for doing something really good. They wrote mother of 3, name, then what she did. It's how they describe criminals.

And victims of crime or car accidents etc too.

Unless they're gay. Then it will always read ''A young gay man has...''

I was researching the archives of our local paper for early last century. Birth announcements in the following format: To the wife of John Smith, a son (or daughter).

Enough said.

The worst one I read was 'An elderly woman had her bag stolen, Mrs xxx, 60 was walking along the high street..etc..'
No way would I have discribed any 60 year old person as elderly.