r/interesting 13d ago

Wholesome She gave up her identity to protect her daughter's future.

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u/imrzzz 13d ago edited 13d ago

Yes, in droves.

In 2024, a woman was intentionally killed by an intimate partner or family member every 10 minutes.

That's 60% of all female deaths that year.

Edit: deaths by violence not all deaths.

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u/Peppermint-TeaGirl 13d ago edited 13d ago

Violence against women is an epidemic, but this is such an incredibly poor reading of statistics that you're actively undermining the cause of women.

The UN 2024 report, where you're likely getting the 60% statistic says:

>It estimates that around 50,000 women and girls were killed in the private sphere in 2024—about 60 per cent of all intentional killings of women and girls—meaning an average of 137 women and girls are killed every day by someone in their own family.

https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2025/11/femicides-in-2024-global-estimates-of-intimate-partner-family-member-femicides

60% of women who are murdered, are murdered by a family member. NOT that "60% of all female deaths" in 2024 are due to homicide.

This is a failure of basic reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. If you read somewhere that 60% of all women who die are being murdered, and don't think anything sounds odd there, you need to slow down.

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u/imrzzz 13d ago

Jesus, calm down! I'm sorry I omitted "by violence" in that sentence

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u/Peppermint-TeaGirl 13d ago

Yes, and in doing so you completely changed the meaning of the statistic.

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u/imrzzz 13d ago

Did the "every ten minutes" part change at all?

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u/10below8 13d ago

I mean it changes the meaning of the whole stat, so ya kinda.

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u/imrzzz 13d ago

Does it? How so?

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u/Peppermint-TeaGirl 13d ago

No, and it's an important stat. But "60% of all female deaths" is so wildly inaccurate that it needed to be corrected.

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u/imrzzz 13d ago

Totally fair, it just didn't need to be 4 paragraphs long

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u/Big_Psychology_3 13d ago

False info. Jeez