On Femicide

 


I pray never to embarrass my ancestors like this. Femicide is a subset of homicide. Homicide is basically killing another person.

Femicide is killing a woman because she is a woman and is the highest direct consequence of misogyny. That's what the likes of Ted Bundy did, as was that Kenyan man.

Androcide is the killing of men/boys based on his gender. It's what Jeffery Dahmer did to his victims. 

Infanticide is killing of children on the basis of them being kids. Like the killing of twins. Also with the China case of one child's family. But china also leans more towards femicide in the infanticide cos they mostly terminated the female children. So still femicide etched in the infanticide.

Femicide is more commonly known because obviously the world we live in. Femicide is the highest outcome of misogyny, but you don't hear about androcide cos misandrists don't go crazy like men do with misogyny.

There is a whole list of words for all types of killings and they all end in cide. We all obviously know suicide and genocide. There is a whole list of them itemized and explained here 

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