Today a generation of young girls’ lives changed forever.
In a northern English city on an ordinary Monday night, thousands of young women and girls went to a big-deal concert.
Ariana Grande doesn't pull in a lot of blokes. Her audience is crammed with mother-daughter duos, sisters and girlfriends. Many are just children, putting their first independent foot out into the world. They came, dropped off by mum and dad, to see their favourite Insta-massive pop star. They came to learn how it feels to be out there, to be part of a crowd who know all the songs they know, moving together.
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Women and girls in far too many countries face danger and atrocities like this very single day. Yet it is ignored by the western 'civilised' world. Why do we think have the right to safety and enjoyment when so many don't? Maybe if we stopped being so wrapped up in our comfort and did more for those who had far less than we do, there would be more peace in the world and less attacks. If people were more interested in being humanitarian and paying attention to what is actually happening across our world rather than news being focused on the Kardashians, royal family or who wore what to the met gala then we'd have a very different world. It's not up to the Governments to fix everything, it's up to us all.
Nope. This article is tone deaf. The attack in Manchester was about terrorism; it wasn't a gender issue. Males, including boys, lost their lives today, and they should not be overlooked in your eagerness to turn this into a political soapbox. There's a time and a place for everything, and now is not the time to appropriate a tragedy in order to turn it into a piece about gender.
Well said.
Well said
It's is gendered, because it's pretty much ALWAYS men who commit acts like this. Women tend not to be terrorists, but they are always victims.
How about we work out why it is mostly always men who use violence to solve whatever issues they have?
...so we only focus on female victims? Sorry, your logic fails me completely. That is like saying that, because it is usually women that commit infanticide, so we should only cry for their male victims.