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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If the sex of a murder victim changes, at all, how you perceive the crime, you're sexist, period.

At least have the guts to admit it instead of pretending this is a noble stance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The sex, gender, ethnicity etc of the victim, and the perpetrator, can give very important context that can point to very important issues that needs to be dealt with. If you're alluding to the actual deaths of the victims being equally bad no matter their gender because they are all humans, then congratulations for passing the lowest threshold for human decency.

Wanting to end femicide doesn't mean you value women more than men, it's pointing to a specific issue. It also doesn't mean that other issues doesn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you’re alluding to the actual deaths of the victims being equally bad no matter their gender because they are all humans, then congratulations for passing the lowest threshold for human decency.

Yeah, and as low as that is, there are many in here who don't pass it, so shame on them.

Wanting to end femicide doesn’t mean you value women more than men, it’s pointing to a specific issue. It also doesn’t mean that other issues doesn’t matter.

It's the same sort of thing as when there was that big statement made some years back about 'stop targeting women journalists', alongside a statistic that 11% of the journalists who were killed over the prior year were women. In other words, '89% of killed journalists are men, so stop killing women'. At best, a statement like that comes off as foolishly ignorant--at worst, it comes off as callous and indifferent to male victims.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Everything has context, and context matters. Your can look at any issue from different perspectives and through different lenses. From different perspectives, different aspects of the context might be of different significance, etc. As such, there could very well be a perfectly fine reason to say "stop targeting women journalists". But that doesn't, at all, mean other perspectives are invalid.