{"id":1842,"date":"2008-07-14T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2010-11-24T00:02:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T05:02:26","slug":"rape-and-murder-of-women-how-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/07\/14\/rape-and-murder-of-women-how-odd\/","title":{"rendered":"Women! How Odd!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melissa at Shakesville has captured these examples of Reuter’s “Odd News” lists (see here<\/a>).\u00a0 She collects instances of:<\/p>\n

…the wire services’ insistence on trivializing women’s lives, actions, experiences, and issues by categorizing as “Odd News” stories about the mistreatment of women, or stories about women that aren’t “odd” in any way aside from the fact that there’s a women at their centers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A woman kidnapped for rejecting a man and sexualized prison politics.\u00a0 How odd!<\/p>\n

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\nA woman was violent; another was sexually assaulted.\u00a0 Women should have the right to nourish the next generation?\u00a0 How odd!<\/p>\n

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\nWomen are abused and a desperate girl is given away in a poker game.\u00a0 Jealous husbands shouldn’t be allowed to do illegal things.\u00a0 How odd!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rape, how odd!<\/p>\n

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Melissa at Shakesville has captured these examples of Reuter’s “Odd News” lists (see here).\u00a0 She collects instances of: …the wire services’ insistence on trivializing women’s lives, actions, experiences, and issues by categorizing as “Odd News” stories about the mistreatment of women, or stories about women that aren’t “odd” in any way aside from the fact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,55,2090,129,133],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-gender-violence","tag-media","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29570,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/29570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}