[pheonix500000]

It has come to my attention that femicide which is defined as the killing of a woman or girl, in particular by a man and on account of her gender is actually a term that exists. What implications would this have on current laws vs something being classed as homicide?

Anyone with half a brain would realize that the majority of murders that take place have male victims so why is this not accounted for?

i cant put it very eloquently because this shit is insane.




Case in point

Mexicans march against femicide after teen's murder
Nineteen-year-old Mara Fernanda Castilla went missing after using a ride-hailing app in the Mexican state of Puebla.


Mexican women carrying a banner reading '#NationalEmergency for #Femicides' in Mexico City [Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP]Mexican women carrying a banner reading '#NationalEmergency for #Femicides' in Mexico City [Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP]
Holding signs that read "ni una mas" (not one more) and "no fue tu culpa" (it was not your fault), thousands marched across cities in Mexico on Sunday, calling for government action against femicide after a 19-year-old was found dead after using a ride-hailing app.

The body of Mara Fernanda Castilla was found near a motel in the central Mexican state of Puebla on Friday after she went missing a week earlier.

In a statement, Puebla authorities said they believe she was killed by a driver from the taxi-hailing application, Cabify. She had used the app on the night of September 8 but never arrived at her destination.

The driver of the vehicle has since been arrested, and officials say he will be charged with femicide.

The news of Castilla's death stoked anger across Mexico, prompting civil society groups, activists and community members to organise marches on Sunday in support of Castilla and other victims of femicide.


Mara Castilla's family members march in Xalapa, Veracruz state, Mexico [AFP]
"Sexual violence against women is constant, and it happens on a daily basis in Mexico," Tania Reneaum, the executive director of Amnesty International Mexico, told Al Jazeera.

"We marched not only for Mara but for so many women who have been killed," Reneaum said, referencing the recent deaths of 22-year-old Lesby Berlin Osorio in May and 11-year-old Valeria Teresa Gutierrez in June.

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In the state of Puebla alone at least 83 women have been killed since the beginning of the year, according to local media.

Pointing to government statistics, Reneaum said 66 percent of women and children over the age of 15 have reported being sexually abused at least once.

'Reclaiming space'

Martha Violante, who marched in Mexico City, said: "Femicides are a serious problem in our society since the government's response has not been enough."

Thousands in the capital chanted in Spanish: "They will tremble, they will shake, because machismo has got to end ... Do not stop applauding, do not stop applauding, machismo must die."

Andalusia Knoll Soloff, a journalist who also attended the Mexico City rally, said several protesters were marching for the first time.

"I think the march was less about demands and more about women exerting their rights to live their lives," Knoll Soloff told Al Jazeera. "Thousands of women have been killed over the last few years."

The general message was "about reclaiming space and exerting your rights as an independent woman that you should be able to live your life as you want, and not think that if you call a taxi from a secure taxi app because it's late at night that you're going to end up dead", Knoll Soloff added.


Translation: Mara took a taxi that she thought was safe. She never made it home. Today we march for Mara and thousands of other victims of femicide.

According to Knoll Soloff, ride-hailing applications like Cabify and Uber have become increasingly popular across Mexico, especially for women.

"In Mexico, taxis are considered unsafe," she said, adding that apps such as Uber and Cabify are considered to be "safer options" due to the data that is shared during each ride.

Tony Gali, Puebla's governor, said in a tweet that the safety standards for Cabify would be reviewed.

Cabify released a statement on Twitter, saying that it "deeply regretted" and condemned the death of Castilla, demanding that the person responsible be held accountable.


A woman marches holding a sign that reads in Spanish "Not one more" in Mexico City [Eduardo Verdugo/AP Photo]
'Society must change'

While many who attended Sunday's marches blamed government inaction, several also pointed to societal factors.

"It's a mixture between impunity, corruption and macho culture," Amnesty's Reneaum said.

Protester Violante, who is also a journalist, said that "as a Mexican woman, it is very difficult to know that leaving your house you may not return.

"And worse, that if something does happen to you, some parts of society will blame you for 'being a whore, and not being a decent woman'."


Violante explained that some people who walked past the Mexico City march were heard blaming Castilla for being out late at night.

Although such mentality does exist in Mexico, however, Violante believes there is also a "cultural revolution" taking place.

"I think things are going to change, not today, but in time," she said.

Reneaum added that as women in Mexico, "we want to feel safe, we want to feel alive and we wanted to have the public space for us too".

[brick tamland]

"will be charged with femicide"
^ Seems to me that "femicide" is loaded/emotive language. It's part of the present day political correctness/SJW milieu.

By itself, the word means nothing. It is made up, because it is not even the inverse of "homicide", as "homicide" is a gender neutral term. But its "value" is its connotations. That is why it is loaded/emotive language. Let us take this incident in Mexico. Apparently taxi travel is generally unsafe for women, and especially at night, one would suppose. Now the activists have a visible target, which is the business called Cabify. Cabify is an infinitely better target than a grubby self-employed taxi driver named Juan who drives a 1983 Toyota. Never mind that no investigation has been concluded, the "femicide" mud flung around will stick. Cabify is the unfortunate target this time. Activists need to market the idea. It works well for them that this incident is linked to a growing industry in Mexico because the visibility of "femicide" is boosted.

"What implications would this have on current laws vs something being classed as homicide"?

It should not have any implications, although as seen in many instances, SJWs urge that overly severe punishment be meted out to men who kill women, whilst they urge for leniency in the inverse scenario. According to them there are always mitigating circumstances when women kill.

[Luvianka]

The reason why ‘feminicide’ is a crime defined and sanctioned under Mexican laws is very simple -Corruption. Yes, every state law and local criminal code has always defined the crime of homicide, but since local and federal authorities basically don’t enforce the law, occasionally local congresses issue new laws to ‘give prosecutors and police forces with the tools to better prosecute crime’. In this way, authorities can save face, proclaiming they are doing something against crime, when in fact they are the problem by not enforcing the law. In the case of feminicides the term came because of a wave of murderers committed in the border city of Juárez in the Northern State of Chihuahua (borders with El Paso, TX). Tens of women, maybe hundreds were kidnapped, raped and murdered in that city in the late eighties and early nineties. The victims were mostly young women from the lower classes, migrated from the very poor Southern states of the country and from Central America countries, and many of them employed in the Maquila sector of the town. The authorities never conducted a serious probe about the cases, which led to some journalists who investigated this issue, to conclude that local and State officials were involved with gangs working in the organs traffic industry and the performance of satanic rituals. When the cases reached International attention (if I remember well, personalities such as Jane Fonda and Nancy Pelosi came to Mexico to participate in demonstrations) Mexican Government at both local and federal levels issue new laws defining the crime of feminicide as the premeditated and systematic killing of women based on the hate and discrimination of the female genre. This legislation is clearly absurd since it’s providing a special treatment for women while Article 1 of the United Mexican States’ Constitution (that’s the official name of Mexico) provides that both genres, male and female, are equal before the law and at any court. According to officials this kind of legislation was issued to provide officials with better legal weapons to prosecute these crimes. Has it worked? No, since Mexican authorities are corrupted and incompetent when it comes to enforcing the law.

This profemale laws have been followed suit in other issues. Being a journalist is a dangerous profession in Mexico. In states like Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Sinaloa, Michoacán and Oaxaca where drugs related criminal gangs rule the area, journalists are systematically harassed, intimidated and murdered. Oh, but don’t you worry, the Federal government issue a new law to protect journalists from this kind of crimes, so if someone wants to commit a journalist-cide, he’d better think it twice, otherwise he may face the long arm of the Federal law… Nah!

Corruption from low and high-ranking officials could’ve been always prosecuted under the crimes of fraud and the pillage of the national treasure, but since corruption is ‘the cement that holds political alliances’ scandalous and evident corruption cases were never prosecuted, but in a few times and always within the frame of political vendettas. Hold on, guys! We just got a new law which specifically targets public corruption to tame our very corrupt politicians… Nah!

Finally, and much to my dismay, I must tell that ‘Antifa’ just reached Mexico and it’s ugly. During the demonstrations that followed the murder of Mara Fernanda in Mexico City; the group of feminists that lead the protests prevented, harassed and assaulted some men who wanted to join the demonstration to show solidarity. The ironic thing is that one of those assaulted and insulted men was journalist Jenaro Villamil, a very active and nationally known activist of such transcendental issues as the feminist agenda, gay marriage, LGBTTI parades everywhere, transexual rights and so on.

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[Tim in real life]

Silly SJWs. Their own actions are ironically helping bring western gender relations back to pre-Crusades Viking Age Europe, much less Victorian England. Why do you think modern-day Anglo women look at Vikings are their collective ideal of masculinity, to the point they use American black men as substitutes for it?

Gynocentrism is a lose-lose proposition to BOTH men AND women, heck, all of humanity, as it only causes women to fail their biological imperative, acrimony between men and women via shit tests, exogamy, et al.

As for the case itself, it's rather tragic. Ladies, in a man's world, once you invade a man's space, you're automatically expected to carry the load like a man.

[Conscious Pirate]

And here I was thinking that this liquid I cover myself in was protecting me from blue-haired chicks with tatts & shitty attitudes.

[Bill Brasky]

Femecide. Not a word ladies. The problems of murder, curroption and poverty extend well beyond any ideological spin you put on girls getting murdered. The people go for the easy targets and women happen to be easier than men most of the time.

Solve the problems of your country and don't use feminism as the vehicle.

Oh and by the way, you love machismo don't Fucking deny it. It's the only thing that gets Mexican girls wet.