[mambodog]

I'll be honest, my title was adapted from the one I saw on reddit, as the original article title was not sufficiently informative.

This interpretation never occurred to me. Little did I realise that I was subconsciously trying to imply that women are stupid and deceitful!

How would you have phrased it?

[farout]

It does not matter that the person who did this was a woman.

Use of stolen SIM lands person in jail.

[glhaynes]

I agree that it doesn't matter, but it's entirely conventional for "Man" / "Woman" to be used in news story headlines, so your charges of sexism are silly.

On this topic, a fantastic satirical article by Hofstadter about uses of gendered pronouns: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html

[Psyonic]

That Hofstadter piece felt a bit like being repeatedly hit over the head with a mallet.

[joelhooks]

Doesn't really matter that it was a person either.

"Use of stolen 3g card lands organism in jail" /scrubbed

[m_myers]

It's probably important that this was a conscious organism. Although the shock factor would be higher if a tree had been jailed.

And "stolen" is much too strong a word. Let's say "illicitly obtained".

And it wasn't the "use", it was the excessive use.

And there was a fine also, so you can't just leave it at "jail". That sounds judgmental, anyway. Call it "corrective action".

OK, now what have we got?

"Excessive use of illicitly obtained 3G card by conscious organism garners heavy corrective actions"

Ahh, much better. No one can possibly be offended by that. Right?