I've been looking at some excellent articles talking about how the media highlights the tiny percentage of females that participated in order to pretend this was not a gendered event.
Found this comment in particular to be enlightening:
"Malestream media always refers to men/man/boy/boys as ?people? because these men/man/boys/boy are not ?males? they are the default humans and therefore no need for malestream media to refer to their biological sex. Women/girls/females are not default humans and therefore malestream media has to refer to said women/woman/girls/girl as being women etc. because women/woman/girls/girl are not default human. Confusing? Not at all given we live in a male supremacist society and system wherein males have declared themselves to be default humans so in order to maintain this hierarchy the majority of human race have to be routinely identified as ?female/woman/girl/girls in order not to confuse malestream media and male politicians who also think world revolves around white powerful men and their interests.
Men are men ? they are not ?sex? that is what women are ? ?sex? and nothing else. So too malestream use of term ?youth? refers to adolescent boys who are not children but have not yet been accorded their adult male status. Women are always girls until such time as they reach the age malestream media views as ?obsolete? and then females become ?elderly vulnerable people!?
?Why is adolescent male wankery always treated as the be all and end all of human experience ?? Answer because men for centuries have claimed and continue to claim world was created by men for men?s benefit and interests. Women aren?t human but just exist to serve men 24/7 in whatever way men demand. Or to put another way ? because male supremacist system has not changed one iota since men created it ? the delusion continues that world revolves around males and their needs/violence against other males etc.
Latest riots and looting are all about males clashing with other males and male struggle for male power and domination over other males. Male voices and male violence against other males is ?news? but male violence and male domination over women is not ?news? because it is the unchanging natural male order/male system ? or so male supremacy claims.
Economic cuts aren?t affecting women and girls are they? Because only when something affects males does it become important and in urgent need of ?fixing!? It?s all about men and their grievances against other men again and again and again ad nauseum.
Why aren?t we hearing calls for fathers of these teenage boys and young men to use their adult male authority and ensure their sons aren?t venturing out in to public streets and disrupting women?s and girls? right to access public spaces free from male violence and male intimidation. Instead it is supposedly ?parents? who are to blame ? yet another code word for ?mothers? because mothers are always responsible for their male children?s behaviour despite women having little or no structural power whatsoever. But scapegoating ?parents? (mothers) is common practice for male politicians and their apologists because we must never analyse just how our male supremacist system operates. Or why power and wealth continues to be retained by a tiny percentage of white middle class males." Link