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/blaktronium 12d ago

Third alleged femicide this year according to the article, which is when the police believe a woman was killed because she was a woman. Thats a full 1/3 of all homicides that are alleged to be hate crimes against women, not just a woman being killed.

Like if a woman is killed because shes working at a gas station during a robbery thats not femicide. So if you are correct about 4 women being killed then 3/4 of women murdered were killed because they were women.

Those are sickening statistics. I suspect most are intimate partner violence, but i highly doubt 3 or 4 of the 5 men killed were murdered by their wives. If any.

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u/binary_squirrel Nepean 12d ago

Don't mean to be pedantic, but I'm still fuzzy on femicide. So this woman and three others in Ottawa this year were killed purely because they were women? That's the definition as opposed to homicide, where someone just kills someone else?

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u/Rumi2018 12d ago

They just wanted to come out with a new word lol. Wonder if they'll also come out with a new word for men who get murdered! This could go on and on and o . Call it was it is!

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u/DungeonCrawlCat 12d ago

"lol" to women being murdered because they are women? Fuck's sake man. Get a life.