Reply #174: When one uses the phrase women and children it by design excludes those that don't fall in those

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groups. Ignoring or omitting those people is wrong whether through an absent thought, accustomed style of speaking/reading, or the choice to say women and children are 'superior' groups to garner the outrage of a society/people. When those who don't fit in those listed groups are omitted there is a tacit statement that those left out don't matter. Which is where it makes more sense, to me, to say anyone treated thusly is being victimized/abused etc rather than to point out to exclusionary groups when there are people who don't fit in those groups receiving the same treatment.