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CMV: Gender count shouldn't be mentioned after innocent by standers have been negatively effected from a tragedy or crisis.

When I read a news article about a bombing overseas, why is it always said that - for example; 
'13 innocent people were killed, including 3 women and 2 children'?
If humans want sexual equality and not chauvinism then we have to start accepting people as people. If there are innocent civilians who were effected, injured or killed in a crisis, tragedy etc it shouldn't matter how many men, women or children were involved to make the story any less saddening. A loss of life is a loss of life. Young, old, black or white. 
If there are 10 men or 10 women or a mixture of both it's just as relevant to everybody. The gender count shouldn't even be included or mentioned.
gpt
The more details we hear about the victims, the better we are able to relate.  A blanket statement of "5,000 people killed in a tsunami" is just a statistic.  "A family of four on their way to a movie to celebrate the child's birthday was killed by a drunk driver" has a far more visceral impact on most people, even though it's a much smaller number.

Also, particularly when it comes to children, age DOES make a difference.  Children aren't *supposed* to die.  Most societies are set up to protect and nurture children - so that even those without children share in the cost of educating them, because they are of course the future.  

There's also the question of "innocence".  While to you they were just bystanders, a terrorist could see all American adults as supporting the system they oppose.  But a child is too young to have any culpability for the society they live in - it's a higher level of innocence.