Outlining women's issues despite the relevance

	posted by Adam on Friday June 06, @01:22PM from the Playing-fast-and-loose dept.
	CJ writes " The Associated Press has an odd propensity for outlining issues relevant to women despite the relevance of the data (or study). In this article, one would read the headline and assume that increased driving speeds are killing women. However at the end of the article it states that "highway deaths may be increasing for women but nearly 28,000 men died in automobile crashes in 2001, compared with more than 13,000 women. Obvioulsy many factors contribute to this disparity (such as more men on the road driving), but to frame this study as a isssue relevant to women while more than double the amount of men are dying on the roads illustrates a common yet slight double standard in contemporary journalism. Post how you think the headline would read if the genders were to be reversed..."

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My Headline (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Friday June 06, @03:07PM EST (#1) "Patriarchal auto industry gendercide, what is to be done?"

Male drivers (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Friday June 06, @03:21PM EST (#2) Actually without the last line, I would get that men are more capable of driving faster than women or the elderly. This might be because of the male fight/flight response or that men are more capable of making split decisions when needed. The mere fact that more men are killed probably shows that men are the most likely to be the main highway driver in most families.

Re:Male drivers (Score:1) by Gregory on Friday June 06, @10:24PM EST (#3) (User #1218 Info) Yes, that's true. Men do most of the driving on family outings. Men drive more miles than women and men are more likely to drive vehicles like long-haul trucks and buses. Accidents with those vehicles may be more likely to involve fatalities.

Re:Female drivers (Score:1) by Dittohd on Saturday June 07, @12:46AM EST (#4) (User #1075 Info) I think we should determine whether these extra women being killed as a result of the higher speeds are predominantly conservatives or liberals. Then we can decide whether we need to lower or raise the speed limits further! Ha ha! Dittohd

Re:Female drivers (Score:1) by Gregory on Saturday June 07, @10:02AM EST (#5) (User #1218 Info) Regardung CJ's point about the double standard in journalism, this double standard extends into academia, government and other areas of society. I see example after example in which female vulnerability gets the sympathetic attention even when males are more at risk. Although the great majority of HIV infected people in the US are male, the higher female infection rate gets the focus of sympathetic attenetion. Males commit suicide at four times the rate of females, yet the spotlight is on females' greater "attempt" rate. Males are most likely to be the victims of violent crime, especially homicide, but it's females' fear of being victimized that gets the most attention from the media and government. Men die sooner than women and are more at risk when it comes to the leading causes of death, but the government spends more on women's medical research and health awareness. And on and on. Reverse the genders and think about the public response. No matter the situation, females get more sympathy, attention, and protection.

Re:Female drivers (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Sunday June 08, @01:30AM EST (#6) "And on and on. Reverse the genders and think about the public response. No matter the situation, females get more sympathy, attention, and protection." Thats because they vote more. Dan.

Females vote more? (Score:1) by Dittohd on Friday June 13, @01:05PM EST (#7) (User #1075 Info) >Thats because they (females) vote more. I've never heard that before. Is that generally the case across the U.S.? I just assumed that women were just so much better at whining. The squeeky wheel gets the grease thing. I suspect that if a lot more men got squeeky, they'd get some of the grease also. I think that the problem is that men naturally put the welfare of women first and women naturally put the welfare of women first. So where does that leave the welfare of men? Dittohd

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