Victims & Pronouns

Two recent news stories have rattled my cage, both of them examples of the distorting lens through which the woke media projects its bias.

One: I find it offensive to genuine victims of sexual abuse to refer to the women associated with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as ‘victims of abuse’ when most of them were in their twenties at the time of the relevant events and were what a previous age would have referred to as ‘courtesans’, defined by the Collins English Dictionary as ‘a prostitute or paramour, esp. one associating with noblemen or men of wealth’.

Two: I find it offensive to women in general to refer to the Canadian high-school shooter as ‘she’ when the attack was actually carried out by a biological male who merely self-identified as female.