witchybitchy

ohh I see the male defaultism everywhere. I am a woman and work in a warehouse, it comes up often when all the folks (another woman in the warehouse with me) are referred to as "guys". sure, most of the folks are men but still, it's kinda disrespectful imo. but I saw a super clear example the other day watching a Cody Ko youtube video where Cody was commentating on, like, cringe podcasters or something. but there was a man who was addressing a 4 or 5 person group of only, all women. the male podcaster felt uncomfortable saying "hey women" or something and then chose "hey guys" instead. like, how more egregious can you get? they're ALL women, and yet you think it's a-ok to refer to them as "guys". how hard is it to go to "hey gals" or "hey ladies" 🙄 as an aside, I hate when people say "men and females" like we're a separate fucking species. I see that shit everywhere on less leftist communities, like reddit. haven't seen it too much yet on lemmy but it'll happen eventually as the site gains more users

the pilot doesn't deserve being gendered? the child, okay I can see having their info private. but "3 women, and child, and the pilot" just seems a lil weird y'know

they're named as Andres so they're probably male identifying (edit- the article also uses "he", so even likelier that they're male identifying) but still, the women are ID'd by their gender, but the child and pilot by their "role" or age or something. I hope it was a consent thing, the pilot didn't want to be listed by their gender, but the women were okay with it?

anyway, they couldn't drink the water they were floating in because of leaking plane fuel contaminating it, but they had some flour to eat so they were in somewhat healthy conditions. quoted as "amazing conditions", but I think that's relative to having been deemed missing for those 48hrs

they were extremely fortunate, but still that's gotta be a mind fuck to be surrounded by human-eating reptiles just lurking in the water outside the contaminated area. don't fall in! life saving water within arms reach but you can't get it safely. I'm glad they were airlifted to hospital, they probably needed a rehydration/water IV inserted