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 FEMICIDE DEFINED:
THE KILLING OF FEMALES "intimate femicide...murder of an oppressed woman who attempted to emancipate herself; and...an actual or attempted murder/suicide in which a socially inept and dependent man kills."
"If I can't have her, no one can." "I'd rather see her dead than with somebody else." These phrase have been and still are frequently spoken and even used as song lyrics by males. Statistic show that males frequently fulfill their desires, resulting in acts that have finally become recognized to be more than just homicide, it is FEMICIDE.
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The following two articles are excerpts from the Feminista Website. Click here to read complete articles: Gender Hate Crime: SAFE HouseAll The Dead Are Girls: Florida NOWNet "The crime is about men's entitlement to women in relationships. It is about male violence against women and girls. It mirrors the dynamics of hundreds of domestic violence homicides", said Susan McGee, Executive Director of the Domestic Violence Project, Inc./ SAFE House. "I'm gravely concerned that everyone seems to have missed it. Every day, batterers of adult partners threaten to kill their girlfriends and wives if they dare to break up with them or dare to leave them." "Four girls and a female teacher were killed. Nine other girls and another female teacher were injured," Rachelle Smith, pointed out. Ms. Smith, an educator on dating violence, said, " Classmates of the dead and injured heard Mitchell Johnson threatening to kill a girl who had refused to be his girlfriend. He reportedly said 'nobody's going to break up with me,' and told other girls that 'tomorrow you will find out if you live or die.' This is the exact behavior we see daily in men who batter their wives and girlfriends. We are missing the boat if we address the issue only as one of teen violence in general, and fail to address the overarching epidemic of violence against women."
"All The Dead Are Girls" The headline some newspapers referred to the killers in Jonesboro as boys and the dead as students and a teacher. Four girls and a woman are dead. Nine girls and a second woman were wounded. Even in death women are denied their identity. They were trapped, targeted and gunned down by experienced hunters, boys, with an arsenal of guns, "who had a whole lot of killing to do" because one of them was "jilted" by a girl. In case, there is anyone who doesn't understand what a gender based, hate crime is...this is it. According to Peggy Harris of the Associated Press, "The Arkansas shooting was at least the third fatal shooting in a school in the past five months. As in the Jonesboro case, all the dead were girls. On Dec. 1, a boy opened fire on a student prayer circle at a high school in West Paducah, Ky., killing three students and wounding five. Two months earlier, two students died at a shooting in Pearl, Miss. All the dead are girls. All of them. In one case, a "student" first killed his mother and then went to school and killed girls. " Boys have been shot, when the killers were spraying bullets into a crowd, but all the dead are girls. And who among us "girls" can forget Montreal, December 06, 1989. All the dead were women. What do all these killings have in common? Boys killing girls and women. The killings must stop. And the media must report these murders for what they are..gender based, hate crimes. Toni Van Pelt Jean Hontz (majkia@earthling.net) (majkia@emeraldcoast.com)
Niceville, Florida, USA
The following is an excerpt from the Education Wife Assault Website: "Intimate Femicide: An Analysis Of Men Who Kill Their Partners" By: Gregory P. Kerry M.A., Correctional Service of Canada & Carleton University [originally printed in Education Wife Assault Newsletter , V. 9 # 1, June 1998] While there is a vast body of knowledge on violence against women, intimate femicide, the most severe form of violence, has received little attention. This is alarming since statistics show that when a woman is killed, the perpetrator is often a man who has been intimately involved with her (Campbell, l992; Crawford & Gartner, l992; Stout, l99l; Statistics Canada, l99l; l989; U.S. Department of Justice, l992). To better understand intimate femicides, a binary model is proposed. Within this model, intimate femicide is understood as having two different origins: one involves the murder of an oppressed woman who attempted to emancipate herself and the other is an actual or attempted murder/suicide in which a socially inept and dependent man kills his liberated and independent partner. This model thus divides intimate murders into those who attempted or committed suicide immediately after killing their partner and those who did not.
| Dying at the hands of their lovers | | June 28, 2004
By Estelle Ellis South Africa's femicide rate is the highest in the world. A recent study found that one South African woman is killed every six hours by a man she had chosen to spend her life with. In 50% of all solved murders of women in the country, it was found that the perpetrator was an intimate partner. ... "Women ... are most likely to be murdered by male intimate partners and less frequently by strangers." | | 
