• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Because some murders aren’t just about the victim - they intimidate others in the same “class”. It’s a type of terrorism.

    In the US we have a modifier of “hate crime” that serves a similar purpose.

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      11 hours ago

      I guess it’s just me but I feel like “misogynist homicide” is more clear than femicide. That massive paragraph breaking it down between domestic violence and something specifically called “femicide” is completely unnecessary. As I write this on a computer and keyboard at this point, I’m realizing it wants to spell check “femicide” because it’s also not in the spell-check dictionary.

      I’m going to re-affirm, this is dumb.