https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1j7mxjx/the_total_killed_includes_13_women_and_five/
created by Both_Relationship_62 on 10/03/2025 at 01:10 UTC*
422 upvotes, 11 top-level comments (showing 11)
Representatives of the new Syrian authorities are accused of killing 162 civilians in Latakia province. Since the BBC considers women's lives more important than men's and treats women the same way as children, it chose to emphasize that among the victims there were 13 women, mentioning them alongside the five killed children. In the BBC's view, the 144 killed men do not deserve a separate mention, so, as it often happens, the male victims were left invisible.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxnwrqey4go[1][2]
1: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxnwrqey4go
2: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxnwrqey4go
Comment by DizzyAstronaut9410 at 10/03/2025 at 02:24 UTC
207 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Remember, if you're in a warzone, you're either a child, a woman, or a willing combatant!
Comment by GalileosTele at 10/03/2025 at 01:49 UTC
116 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I agree the killing of children is worse, and hence justifiable to give them a separate mention.
Regarding the 157 adults killed, allow me translate what these kind of headlines are really saying: “We don’t want anyone to be killed, but if people are gonna be killed… it would be preferable if they were all men.”
Comment by gmnotyet at 10/03/2025 at 03:55 UTC
62 upvotes, 0 direct replies
"The total 162 killed consisted of 144 men, 13 women, and five children."
If the BBC was not feminized.
Comment by Gummy_Hierarchy2513 at 10/03/2025 at 06:15 UTC
16 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Just to let you know, the confirmed amount of civilian deaths has already reached almost 1000, and estimates by locals have numbers up to 10000. It’s unrelated but still important for people to know what’s going on
Comment by hendrixski at 10/03/2025 at 14:26 UTC
16 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Translation: "144 animals who are worse than bears, were killed. We hate them anyway. Good riddance."
But remember: "there is no systemic discrimination against men." 🙄
Comment by t1gerrr at 10/03/2025 at 14:19 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Even worse in Ukraine where men were men have been converted to a second class citizens and taken away the choice to stay and fight or leave the country.
Men are literally getting kidnapped off the streets by a draft board squats, beaten up and sent to the trenches against their will after 1-3 weeks of training whereas the fellow women are posting pictures from there travels across the Europe and tweets/threads on how classy the European guys are compared to the Ukrainian ones.
And guess what? Leave alone the guys in the uniform, anytime there is a shelling of the major population centers which results in civilian deaths, the very same manner of reporting is applied - x people died including y women and z children.
Comment by RealStarkey at 10/03/2025 at 11:30 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The ship’s going down. Women and(then) children first.
Comment by Silly_donut01000010 at 10/03/2025 at 14:17 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I always hated this, women are grown adults and shouldn't be compared to children. Only children should be mentioned or the full count including all adults and children to make it fair.
Comment by Golden-Grate-242 at 10/03/2025 at 06:24 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The situation there is abhorrent. I do feel badly for the civilians be they women or men caught up in that. Of course the kids growing up like that is a tragedy, just like the tens of thousands of dead and injured kids in Gaza and the hostages or killed from Israel, what a mess.
It's all bad.
Comment by Just_an_user_160 at 10/03/2025 at 19:38 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It has always been like this, remember when the Titanic sank, they had that rule of women and children first, society has always seen men as less worthy and disposable.
Comment by ReceptionInformal749 at 10/03/2025 at 20:07 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Feminists when men are killed : killed by whom? Mmmm fate? War? Disasters, ? Conflict? Criminals?
