Retrospective metaphor

In yesterday's post, a prescient allegory. Today: something also like that, but flipped on its head through the canyons of time. The screengrab below came from HuffingtonPost today at about 1335 Central Time. If you changed "Females" to "Male" and sent the headline back in time to 20 March 2003, it might be criticized for its lack of respect toward the mentally retarded, but not for any fundamental inaccuracy.