There's been an interesting use of the word 'Femicide' in the media recently, in response to a series of murders of women in Northern Ireland.
It will be interesting to see if anything similar happens in the Republic of Ireland, where any specific mention of violence against women has to be 'balanced' with a reference to men being victims too, Men's Aid, where are the Men's Refuges, etc.
Obviously all victims, male or female, deserve support and justice, but that shouldn't hide the fact that violence, domestic violence, sexual abuse of children, murder, sexual assault and rape are not equally distributed across the population...
Women went out and fundraised and organised and were subjected to abuse and sometimes violence to set up rape crisis centres and refuges, we did that ourselves.
If men are so envious of the support structures women have developed over the decades with our blood sweat and tears, why don't they go out and fundraise and organise and build their own RCCs and refuges for male victims?
No, they want to use ours - for example my local RCC has been open to male clients for decades now. Not female-identifying males, this isn't a recent TRA thing, just men, who rather than campaign for men's RCCs, insist on using the women's RCC, and of course it would have been discriminatory and anti-men to say 'Sorry, this is for women, but we know that male victims of abuse experience pain and distress too, so we're happy to give you help and advice on how to set up your own centres..'