...women tend to be treated as accessories to the main event.
"Three members of a UK family - named as Saad al-Hilli, 50, from Surrey,
his wife and mother-in-law - were shot dead near Lake Annecy on
Wednesday" [BBC]
Notice how the dead people are a named person (male) and unnamed female identified by her relationship to the man, and another unnamed female identified by her relationship to the man.
Would it not be just as accurate and somewhat easier to say:
"Three members of a UK family - named as Iqbal al-Hilli, from Surrey,
her husband and mother - were shot dead near Lake Annecy on
Wednesday"
But that never happens, does it?
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