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People of all races, genders, sexualities, religions, and other groups are dying from COVID-19, and yet feminists are still finding a way to position women as the only ones who suffer.
Instead of upgrading to humanism to address the threat Coronavirus poses to all humans, feminists are descending to, ahem, feminism.
In the Bloomberg article, Women Are Bearing the Brunt of Coronavirus Disruption, Janet Paskin opens with a paragraph featuring several data points that seem to indicate that men are hit hardest by COVID-19:
In an analysis of nearly 45,000 cases in China, the death rate was 2.8% for men, compared with 1.7% for women. And men made up a slight majority of the infected, at 51%.
But then, with a speed slightly faster than light, she pivots to her real point — that women are the real casualties — which takes up the rest of her article:
The vast majority of nurses, flight attendants, teachers and service industry workers are female, and their jobs put them on the front lines of the outbreak. At home, women still do more…
