Do femicides really exist?

[Macoleco]

If a woman fails to follow rules that are forced on her simply because she is a woman then femicide would apply.

I fail to see the logic in your comment. The same would apply for men. And I don’t see the direct relation between following rules and being murdered

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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?

Yes, it is real. I have been in that horrible space. Cops got lost when they figured out that I was just the latest in a growing list of victims of an insane woman.


That is absolutely not to say that all such claims are false. I know for a fact that women of all ages get placed in shockingly compromising positions.

How do I know that? Because I am a volunteer on support lines and I get to hear, well, tales that make me weep.

I don’t see how your comment addresses my question. If a woman calls you because her husband is violent towards her because of, let’s say, jealousy, then that is the cause. Not her condition as a woman.