L’Italia ora riconosce il reato di femminicidio e lo punisce con l’ergastolo
https://apnews.com/article/italy-femicide-law-crime-gender-violence-women-99e4be4aaba9f6b940d834ed6c7cb4d0
di Not-Somebody-Famous
L’Italia ora riconosce il reato di femminicidio e lo punisce con l’ergastolo
https://apnews.com/article/italy-femicide-law-crime-gender-violence-women-99e4be4aaba9f6b940d834ed6c7cb4d0
di Not-Somebody-Famous
19 commenti
Murder is murder. This won’t fix the bad behavior of law enforcement when it comes to helping women.
This is a good law. It raises awareness of the specific act being committed, regardless of the fact that murderers still get life in Italy (the point is recognizing the nature of the act).
So… you’ll get a harsher punishment for killing a woman than a man? Doesn’t sound very equal. And how much impact will this really make? It’s not like there was no law against killing women before this.
What we lack here is a serious education, made in school, sexual, civic and emotional education, making harsher sentences won’t fix things, because those that murder someone often can’t control their emotions, and they will keep doing it, regardless of how harsh the sentence is (look at the US, they have the death penalty in many states, but violent crimes are still high). These things must be prevented before they happen, not after, and i don’t want even talk about the fact that is discriminatory at best. I mean, our government got scared when they talked about sexual education in schools lol, bigotry will always generate monsters and this will resolve absolutely nothing.
Speaking as a woman, this is a terrible idea.
It only adds fuel to the fire of the perception that women are valued more highly than men.
All murder should be treated equally, regardless of who is murdered.
I don’t understand why people have a problem with this. The reason why it needs to be highlighted is to emphasise on how most women who are killed is due to their gender. It’s mainly from their partner, family member, etc the women most times are just innocent.
Whereas most men homicides are due to conflicts where both sides are involved. So withing a criminal context
This has got nothing to do with a gender being more valued than another
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Incels coming out in droves to cry about this in the comments while not even knowing the definition of femicide lol
In Romania alone there have been 52 femicide cases since the start of 2025. Studies done here show that on average, a man tries to or successfully kills a woman every 3 days. I hope the same law gets implemented here no matter how many men will whine about it
Why do we need to distinguish between who is killed?
Femicide does not mean “murdering someone who is female”. It means murdering someone *because* they’re female. So if I’m understanding correctly this law doesn’t mean more jailtime just because a victim happens to be a woman – it’s only more jailtime if it’s the result of explicitly gender-based violence.
Comment section smells like somebody’s parent’s basement
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Of course men on Reddit don’t like this, lol. The reality is, just like any other marginalized group, women are deserving of enhanced protection. Considering how many men target women for crimes BECAUSE OF THEIR GENDER, yes, we absolutely need to start prosecuting this as a hate crime, just like every other historically targeted/marginalized group.
so normal murder is only when someone kill a white male masculine cisgender straight heterosexual man, any other murder already has a special name for it, am I understand this correct? does anyone have pdf brochure so I could learn in case I’ll be forced to discuss the topic when someone ask me on the streets?
People don’t seem to get it. Femicide doesn’t just mean the murder of a woman.
It means the murder of a woman BECAUSE she’s a woman. That is, a hate crime carried out by someone who hates the victim for being a woman.
(If you don’t think that happens, google e.g. Elliot Rodger.)
This is probably geting closed seeing how many of my fellow men seem so angry at a hate crime, killing a woman FOR BEING a woman, is being codified.
My bigest problem is that this doesnt come with measures to prevent only to punish, and prevention measures have proven effective going from an average of 115 to 96 in the last 15 years, even with the oandemic years and with an enrmous increase in migration populatio and with measures so potential abusers can get therapy are lacking.
These comments are wild.
If someone goes on a blind killing spree and some of the victims happen to be women, that wouldn’t be femicide.
If the same someone goes on a killing spree targeting women _because_ they are women (like someone else pointed out: e.g., Elliot Rodger), meaning they think one or more women deserve to die due to some perceived reason tied to their gender (for Rodger it was that he thought he was entitled to sex from women and he wasn’t getting any), then that’s femicide.
Is it so hard?
Also two things can be true at the same time. It’s good to attempt to deter men who think they can kill their ex-girlfriends because “they belong to them”, just to name one common case. It’s also true that what really changes things is revolutionizing a deeply sexist way of thinking that starts early. Education should be the next step, even though I am far from hopeful, sadly
This is nonsense of course but increasingly in the west we go along with it.
The reason why someone commits a crime is irrelevant.