Do femicides really exist?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There are still societies that rid themselves of unwanted female infants by exposure or some other equally gruesome method. This seems the most unarguable form of femicide. The infants arem't killed for standing up for their rights or for economic reasons or for committing some crime or other. They are killed because they are female.

There are also serial killers who prey on exclusively female victims.  They do so from various motivations, but their victims are chosen because they are female, no other reason.


GS's logic is pretty clear.  If rules are imposed on a woman for no other reason than that she's a woman, her murder for breaking those rules would be femicide. I don't know how you can't get that.

So...yes.

Boru

Serial killer are motivated mainly by their mental problems. A serial killer can also choose children or homosexuals as his objectives. Women would be just an specific group.

The same can happen to men regarding the rules part. Soviet soldiers were killed if they tried to scape in WW2. How is it any different?  Do we have a specific word for it?

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Um. Yeah. They exist.

Thanks for the meaning input.

Obviously, not all serial killers prey on women. But the ones who do are committing femicide.  Their motivation(s) for doing so are beside the point - they’re choosing particular victims because those victims are women. Which is the definition of femicide.

Boru