• Hegar@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    Domestic violence is within a family, especially spouses, femicide is “when women and girls are killed because of their gender”, to quote the article.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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      And how do you know that it had anything to do with their gender? Asking because I see many people call random murders, or rather anything that was not a multi-kill, femicides.

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        21 hours ago

        Why so much fighting over a word for women being killed of misogyny? Odd thing to be defensive about. It feels like some people here think even giving women a word for being killed by misogynists is giving them too much.

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          21 hours ago

          Because blaming every murder of a woman on misogyny is just as stupid as not acknowledging it at all. That’s my point.

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              21 hours ago

              No one here, afaik. But it’s a common practice I see under a lot of posts, and I wanted to ask why.