I've been away from a computer for the last 24 hours so here's my more considered thoughts on the matter.
Something about this article bothers me. It's the use of the phrase 'honey trap'. This is a gender-specific phrase, it has an obvious correlation with the female anatomy, it wouldn't have used if a man had lured a woman to her death. I suspect the more neutral phrase 'a man lured a woman to her death' would have sufficed. I don't like the phrase 'honey trap' because it implies and evokes various associated beliefs which share a similar common origin. Eve tempting Adam with the apple; original sin; if you wear a short skirt you're asking for it. And thus this is a feminist issue because it embodies the sexist attitudes still inherent in language and media today and the constant conflation of feminity with sexuality.
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Date: 2009-07-10 09:45 am (UTC)Something about this article bothers me. It's the use of the phrase 'honey trap'. This is a gender-specific phrase, it has an obvious correlation with the female anatomy, it wouldn't have used if a man had lured a woman to her death. I suspect the more neutral phrase 'a man lured a woman to her death' would have sufficed.
I don't like the phrase 'honey trap' because it implies and evokes various associated beliefs which share a similar common origin. Eve tempting Adam with the apple; original sin; if you wear a short skirt you're asking for it.
And thus this is a feminist issue because it embodies the sexist attitudes still inherent in language and media today and the constant conflation of feminity with sexuality.