Oct 5, 2021
The death of Gabby Petito draws attention to a form of widespread gendered violence in the US that has long been hiding in plain sight
The first major newspaper i’ve seen use the word femicide to describe murders of women in the US in 2021
the us has a higher rate of female murders than turkey, a country internationally known for their issue with violence against women. and this doesn’t even include the thousands of ‘missing’ women of colour that were never found and so don’t count in the murder statistics.
men really go “women in the us are so privileged, you should be lucky that you don’t live in *insert third world nation*”, meanwhile, they’re murdering women at a higher rate than a bunch of these countries.
