Has this changed?

Well maybe a little: you do get the odd article about “Men” these days.
In a 1921 essay Rose Macaulay “hones in on the gendered politics of knowledge. By treating women as a topic (which men are not)… newspapers of the period assumed the more powerful subvject position of observer and disseminator of knowledge about women, who ware placed in the passive position of object-of-scrutiny. Macaulay’s essay invites this reading with a metaphor that signals the objectivification, even dehumanization, of women when treated as an object of commentary: “Women are regarded in some quarters rather as a curious and interesting kind of bettle, whose habits repay investigation.”
(From Patrick Collier, Modernism on Fleet Street, Ashgate, 2006, p.140)

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