New Zealand’s Defense Minister Judith Collins has decried what she called misogynistic online comments about the woman commander of a navy ship which ran aground, caught fire and sank off the coast of Samoa on Sunday.
“Seriously, it’s 2024,” Judith Collins told reporters Thursday. “What the hell’s going on here?”
I just looked it up and something like 3% of commercial and military ships on earth are captained by women. It seems a very misogynistic career path, and probably very tough for women to go up in rank
Articles that focus on responses by “the public” on social media shit me. How many responses are we talking? Millions? If not then who fucking cares and why do we need to validate trolls. You know their response to this article would be delight anyway. These serve no purpose other than to make the victims feel bad along with the majority of normal people that empathise. So some arseholes were arseholes, thanks for the news. This isn’t journalism and isn’t a press release that helps anything.
Collins: Well there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don't want people thinking that navy ships captained by women aren't safe.
That headline confused me, because I thought this was some new, weird misogyny. Just from the headline, it sounds like they were saying a ship crashed but did not sink, and the reason it didn't sink id that the ship's Captain was a woman.