An 'epidemic' of violence against women and girls

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5nelp5enpo

Whilst the content is horrifying, I felt this was actually pretty well written.

It, of course, completely ignores the idea that many women may prefer single sex spaces precisely because there is so much violence against women and girls.

It is good that the article made it very clear that issue of VAWG is actually MVAWG. It annoys me when this is glossed over in news reports. Thank you for sharing. It's depressing reading. I hope the government's policies do have an impact on this but unless you actually change violent men I don't see how any policies are going to have an effect.

If only the BBC could make a little leap to why women and girls have been targets since time immemorial. Clue: it’s not our ‘gender expression’.

If we can’t define woman, we can’t protect women.

Weird there was no mention of Karen Ingala Smith and Counting Dead Women. She's been doing exactly this work for years, yet the authors have completely ignored her.

I don't like that this article solely focuses on murder. Do women have to be killed in order for the media to call it "violence"? What about rape victims, victims of sexual harassment, of coercive control, etc? These types of violence should have at least been mentioned.

I wonder if anyone at the BBC is capable of joining the dots as to why with this epidemic of violence, the pornification of society, the sexual harassment of women and girls especially those at school and the reasons why we might want to keep single sex spaces

tbf this is better than most and refers to sex rather than gender but even so

I've been seeing headlines about various organisations or even countries who should be required to pay reparations for past historical wrongs. It got me thinking if any reparations are owed it should be paid by men to women. Starting in the womb we're devalued and the threat of their control and violence hangs over us all the time. It's not historical, it's ongoing.

Obviously, NAMALT and this is just a thought experiment. I don't know how such reparations would work and doubt that in the long term it would make any difference.

Some of those women were attacked as they slept! I hate that there attackers were said to be under the influence. Cocaine and alcohol in two examples. As though that mitigated what they did. I'm of the opinion that they did what they wanted to do, they used the drugs to help remove any remaining inhibitions.

You go on the website of any news site, it could be a tiny local publication, and I swear there will be several recent stories of male violence often sexual, usually against women or children.

It ignores that women need single sex spaces because a tiny group of men have identified themselves out of the perpetrator sex class and into the victim one. And a much larger group of people than would have been expected to have accepted this without question.

...and yet on the same day, the BBC runs a story about the Tumbler Ridge shooting, calling the biological male in a dress gunman "her"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c309y25prnlo

Disgusting.

If a similar article were to be run in Tranada would the dead girls not be counted because they weren't killed by a man according to the batshit ideology running amok in that country?

I came across this article on the BBC news site

Welsh cameraman meets death row pen pal after 20 years - BBC News https://share.google/K6AOghLYYbBF5kx9N

Two quotes stood out to me

After two appeals against his death sentence, Orme appears to have accepted his sentence - to "do right" by Redd's family - but Williams said the death-row inmate "still hasn't 100% admitted" that he is responsible for the crime.

And

As he reflected on his encounter with Orme on his return to Wales, Williams said he would continue to write to the inmate, in spite of the criticism.
"I think it's within everyone to hit rock bottom and to find themselves in a big hole like that," said Williams, when filming finished.

"I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility for anyone," he said, noting Orme's drug-taking on the night of the murder and how "everything went wrong".

He raped and murdered, strangled, his former partner after threatening her. He didn't leave a shop and forget to pay for something. This is partly why there's an epidemic. This man excuses his penpals crime to the extent that he's willing to put himself in the frame as potentially doing something similar, if the stars aligned and he was tipsy enough.

Mate!!!

The BBC again attributing male crimes to women. Use of "her" and "she" to describe a male killer. FFS

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c309y25prnlo