This has really been bothering me for a while. You keep reading how stereotypes are bad (even good ones), now D&D has done the right thing (depending on your point of view) and removed negative race ability score modifiers (whatever they might be -but what is important to be more inclusive and not to hurt our Orc and goblin player's feelings)…
But every time you read an article about abuse -physical or mental- it is almost guaranteed the photos will show a female victim and a male abuser.
Just do a search:
This article has links to further articles which all show female victims, and if shown, male perpetrators. IKEA? But of course!
The Guardian is obviously following this trend -how could they not? Psychology Today? Of course Always…
There was one exception I found in this non-representative search. One.
This article does not even try… it flat out uses the male pronoun.
Why is this a problem? Well, apart from the usual "stereotyping hurts, it is bad, you should not do it" any time it comes up with anyone who is not white and male (but any time you complain when it is about white males, you get the "you are such a snowflake" comments), it does help pushing a false narrative of male perpetrators and female victims. (Even when it is about male victims, it is somehow the Patriarchy's fault...) This has real-world consequences on how society relates to male victims (or men accused of being perpetrators) - as it was many times discussed even on these pages.
But apparently this does not really ring the alarm bells the same way as stereotyping Orcs or Sand People does.
