Women and Children:The Culture and Language of Infantilization

A few days ago, I watched Hotel Rwanda with coursemates in class as part of a media course requirement. While the film—centering on the historical Rwandan Genocide—played on, someone close to me said what we have all been taught to say in moments of mass violence: women and children should be saved first. Men, they […]

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