Guardian article about the language the media uses when reporting crimes against women

[AnotherAdultHumanFemale]

The Guardian has published an interesting article by Jane Gilmore about the reporting of crimes against women, how we are often dehumanised in the media and how language matters:

www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/31/is-not-sex-and-broken-hearts-dont-cause-women-are-dying-and-language-matters

we are often dehumanised
This would be the same guardian that takes the stand that being a woman is a feeling, rather than anything to do with human biology.

Perhaps they might like to stop half their columnists using derogatory language against politically non compliant women then.

Would click, but won't give Grauniad traffic!

Not to mention the reporting of male crimes as committed by women..

The irony.

The Guardian (and the BBC) are the biggest offenders when it comes to MSM abusing women. Or should I say womxn (which The Guardian has previoisly used)?

The cognitive dissonance must be excruciating.

They have a nerve.

I bloody hate The Guardian.

HOWEVER. I clicked. I was bored. I had 2 spare minutes. Glad I did, because the article is basically a promotional piece for the "Fixed It" project which I'd never heard of before.
She changes the headlines of newspaper articles to get right to the point. Brilliant.

I'm now following Jane Gilmore on Twitter, she has a Patreon website, it's a really powerful project.

And on the day we see it announced that a woman is being sent to trial for calling someone a man. Yeah, Crime Of The Century indeed.

I’d never heard of this. Really worthwhile project, thanks for posting OP.

I've followed her on twitter for ages - she's great.

It reminds me of the reporting when the Yorkshire Ripper was still on the lose. I think that was what made me become a feminist - the stark difference in the reporting between the murders of the prostitutes and those of 'respectable women'. The prostitutes didn't have families or lives outside of their work but the other victims did. They were real people

Thanks for your comments everyone. I posted this article partly because it's a good article all about the sexist language of the media, and partly to show how odd it is that the Guardian seems to understand misogyny and discrimination against women at times, but at other times it is blind to it. They seem to employ/work with some writers who believe TWAW and others who don't. I'm hopeful they'll allow more gender critical voices as time goes on.

Yes I realised afterwards that the writer is the author of a book all about this. If interested people can follow her on twitter here:

twitter.com/JaneTribune

To be fair to the Guardian, they have always had columnists with many different points of view.

That doesn't excuse them reporting crimes by men as though they were committed by women though.

I'm not all that keen on airbrushing out the fact that Tracy Connelly was a prostitute if that fact was relevant to her murder.

The coverage of the Yorkshire Ripper case was awful from press and police. On the other hand the treatment of the Ipswich murders by press and police, probably in large measure due to the attitude of Alan Caton, was impressive and respectful without the need to hide or prettily things.

I don't think Gilmore is arguing that Connolly working as a prostitute should have been hidden, just that it isn't the most important thing about her.

And the point about prostitution being dangerous because men are dangerous should be made again and again

An excellent article. What she's doing is really valuable. My only quibble is that headlines are usually written by subeditors, not reporters, so she may in some cases be targeting the wrong people.

And yes, the Guardian's cognitive dissonance is remarkable.