heir reporting unless it’s in reference to a male rapist, sex offender or murderer?
How do they think it feels for women to be erased in discussions about their own health?
Worse still, how do they think it feels for women to see the sentence, “She was obsessed with killing children”, in print, or, “A woman killed her husband with a samurai sword "stabbing and slicing him" more than 50 times before replacing the sword in its sheath on a stand, a court heard.” [See here – MH]
When we read these things, we feel distress: distress for the victims of these crimes first and foremost, but distress too that as a sex class we are being libelled and defamed.
We know there will be many members of the public who are mis-led by this reporting and wrongly attribute these crimes to women.
We also know that crime statistics may well falsely record these crimes as committed by women, skewing important data.
But these are not women’s crimes.
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