STUPID WOMAN WRITES STUPID ARTICLE STUPIDLY

[Dems2002]

82. Nope

Here's the thing. I was in journalism school ages ago. Every word has meaning. When you chose the word "woman" that gave the author's gender meaning. If you had called her out by name or by profession this wouldn't have happened.

Stupid Jennifer Smith writes stupid article clearly refers to a woman, but just one.

Stupid anti-climate writer writes stupid article gives me information about the subject matter under discussion. Now, when I click that link I'm going to do so to see what the anti-climate change folks are saying. Now it's purely subject based and has zero to do with the author's gender.

Stupid woman writes stupid article

A - gives me zero information about the topic

B - The subject of the post is "woman" - hence, I'm going to click the link to read specifically about a woman. I don't know what she's discussing, but I'm going to assume her gender is important and relevant to the story in some way.

C. I learn that this is not the case. The topic at hand is climate-change. I find the stupid on climate change to be pretty much based on political affiliation rather than gender.

So, why is gender the descriptor of choice? It conveys almost no relevant information about the subject matter.

When race and gender terms are not relevant to the subject matter, the purpose they serve is to continue a long narrative that the audience has with that class of people...

Stupid woman writes stupid article = women's brains can't handle writing about important issues

Does that mean that this was what you meant to say? Not at all. But is that what you said to a lot of people? Yes.