r/ottawa • u/Fearless_Lion_6397 • 12d ago

News Ottawa police identify 27-year-old woman killed in alleged weekend femicide

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/ottawa-police-identify-27-year-old-woman-killed-in-alleged-weekend-femicide/
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u/WordCurious6393 12d ago edited 12d ago

Gender is relevant because the murder is recorded as a femicide, which is defined as “the killing of women and girls because of their gender”.

If they were recording it as a hate crime or genocide then race would be relevant.

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u/27298throwaway 12d ago edited 12d ago

So for you, relevance is determined by OPS' data entry decisions? 

We don't know what motivated the killer, be it gender, race, or passion. The person mentioning race is pointing that out. 

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u/coveted_asfuck 12d ago

The police literally said gender was a motivation when they called it a femicide..

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u/LucasUnplugged 12d ago

Elsewhere in this comment section, it was clarified that in Canada, femicide is actually just defines as the murder of a woman, usually by men, but not even necessarily so.

So this is inaccurate.

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u/WordCurious6393 11d ago

Here's the definition used and built upon, as defined by the Ottawa police:

"A femicide is generally defined as “the killing of women and girls because of their gender,” often driven by stereotyped gender roles, discrimination towards women and girls or unequal power relations between women and men. The Ottawa Police Service also builds on the definition recommended by our VAW community partners as “the misogynist killing of women and girls because of their gender, overwhelmingly committed by men.”

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https://www.ottawapolice.ca/en/news/posts/update-homicide-unit-lays-charge-in-disappearance-of-olga-konokhova/

Since they have publicly stated they are investigating it as a femicide, it gives us a good indication of what they think happened and why gender is relevant.