stereotyping attributes are also common for example reports should avoid portraying only men as leaders and women as followers or men as active and women as passive and vulnerable women and girls are not intrinsically vulnerable or victims by nature this stereotypical language denies women and girls agency depicting them as weak and passive bystanders of conflict and agentless victims and builds a distorted maledominated narrative that contributes to women and girls exclusion from decisionmaking transitional justice peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts avoid using gendered nouns such as mankind replacing them for example with people or men and women