Unsung hero reporting continues: "workers", "crew-members", etc.-- never "men"

This is just one example of numerous stories about this accident that has claimed the lives of 11 men. Officially they are still missing but we know by this time if they were still alive they probably would have turned up.

If they had been women, this fact would have been pointed out every other sentence. That they are men is ignored. This is the kind of sexism, the presumption that men will sacrifice themselves for others' convenience, even, without too much in the way of specifically pointing out what they *as men* are doing, that contributes so insidiously to the devaluation of men's lives. Want more examples? I can't count the number. Google with just these keywords: oil rig missing and read. You'd think a "worker" or "crew member" were possibly third sexes of the human race.