# Gendered Words

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gendered-words/760207>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 18, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gendered-words/760207 "2016-07-18T13:43:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gendered-words/760207/61 "2016-07-20T17:45:28Z")

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> [@faithfool](#):
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> Especially in print, calling attention to a woman being a murderess seems particularly redundant now days. All news stories will carry her name and description, usually within the first paragraph, and the article will for the most part, be accompanied by photos and increasingly, videos. It’s not only seems archaically sexist, but an even bigger push at sensationalism. “Oh my gosh! A WOMAN committed a murder!  
> \< clutches pearls \> Read our story alllllll about it!!”

I’m not going to say that the media isn’t being exploitative every chance they get, they are, but even though we live in an enlightened modern progressive society I would hazard a guess that at least 90% (or more) of all murders, heck all violent crime, is still committed by men…

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