Femicide is usually defined as the murder of a woman because of her condition as woman.
Lately this word is being used in the media in my country. And I wonder, do femicides really exist? Are there people out there who kill women for being women? For me this makes no sense.
If a woman is victim of a violent crime, such as rape, then the motivation of the perpetrator is sexual pleasure, not because she is a woman.
If a man kills his partner because she cheated for example, then his motivation was jealousy, not because she was a woman.
And the list goes on. It seems to be people ignore the main cause and use the word femicide because it fits their narrative. If a man is assaulted and murdered, people don’t say he was killed because he was a man. Why the difference?
Lately this word is being used in the media in my country. And I wonder, do femicides really exist? Are there people out there who kill women for being women? For me this makes no sense.
If a woman is victim of a violent crime, such as rape, then the motivation of the perpetrator is sexual pleasure, not because she is a woman.
If a man kills his partner because she cheated for example, then his motivation was jealousy, not because she was a woman.
And the list goes on. It seems to be people ignore the main cause and use the word femicide because it fits their narrative. If a man is assaulted and murdered, people don’t say he was killed because he was a man. Why the difference?
