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[–]purrvana 54 insightful - 6 fun54 insightful - 5 fun55 insightful - 6 fun -  (8 children)

I really want to write my own letter and post it on my social media:

"I am pleased to announce that I identify as a woman. Yes, I was born female and although growing up was difficult, I am now secure in my womanhood. This is really scary though because being a woman comes with risks. Over 1600 women are killed a year in the US. Women are more likely to be trafficked and assualted sexually. The statistics are staggering. Discrimination against women is rife, as we're often called 'cervix-havers' or 'uterus-owners' and denied sex-based spaces, but I hope to endure despite this discrimination. I'm proud to be a woman and I embrace fully who I am. To all the women who deal with harassment, self-loathing, abuse, and the threat of violence every day: I see you, I hear you, and I will do everything I can to change this world for the better."

[–]MarkTwainiac 31 insightful - 1 fun31 insightful - 0 fun32 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Over 1600 women are killed a year in the US

Uh, no - you're undercounting by half. According to the FBI, the number of people who die of homicide in the US each is usually around 3,200.

In 2016, the number of female homicide victims in the US was 3,208.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-1.xls

In 2017, 3,222 female people died of homicide in the US.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-1.xls

In 2018, 3,180 female people died in the US by homicide.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-1.xls

In 2019, 2,991 females died of homicide in the US. (However, this is a preliminary number; the FBI's final reports on 2019 stats are not out yet.)

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-2.xls

[–]purrvana 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Thanks for correcting me. I found it weirdly difficult to find accurate stats simply by googling. I'm not American so I wasn't sure what site to go to.

[–]MarkTwainiac 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

For US stats, the FBI is the place to go. They publish comprehensive reports with tons of tables every year.

Can you tell me where you got the 1600 figure from when you googled? I've seen it elsewhere recently, on Mumsnet for example. But since I'm one of the many women banned from there for not showing deference to men who claim to be women, I couldn't post a correction. Thanks.

[–]purrvana 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I found the 1600 figure in a few places including a Guardian article and I'm guessing it comes from here where it says ~1600 is the average number of women killed by intimate partners.

[–]MarkTwainiac 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you.

it says ~1600 is the average number of women killed by intimate partners.

They key phrase there is "intimate partners." Pretending that the number of female people killed each year = the number of women killed by intimate partners leaves out half the female homicide victims in the US in any given year. Fact is, whilst intimate partner killings account for a lot of the homicides of females, they sure don't account for all! In fact, these killings only account for half of female homicide deaths in the US each year.

About 10-12% of females who die of homicide in the US annually are killed not by people the girls or women were ever intimate partners with, but by a range of people, including total strangers, acquaintances, co-workers, neighbors, carers, men who just got sight of their victims somewhere and stalked them, johns in the case of prostitutes, and indiscriminate mass killers including terrorists, serial killers, and shooters who on a fairly regular basis in the US rain bullets into schools, workplaces, malls, places of worship and other public gatherings.

In any given year, at least 35% of homicides in the US (and countries such as the UK) have no known suspects, so it's not known if they were killed by intimate partners or someone else. The remainder of females who die of homicide in the US each year are killed by their parents or one of their parent's BFs, by their children (particularly sons), or by other family members such as brothers or various relatives acting together in cases of familial "honor killings" amongst certain subcultures in the US population.

Whatever the relationship - or lack of one - between females in the US who die of homicide and their killers, these girls and women are almost always killed by males. From decades of investigating and study, we know that males in the US commit 91% of all homicides, and nearly 100% killers of female people are male. Females commit only 2% of killings in which the victims are female.

[–]fuckupaddams 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is unironically the conversation we need to having. And yet if you posted that you'd get a dead rat nailed to your door and rape threats.

[–]ZeWombat 12 insightful - 6 fun12 insightful - 5 fun13 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Congratulations! So BRAVE & Stunning.

[–]distortedlinds 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

oh my god, i applauded this in real life. god that is amazing. thank you for that.