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Paris killers spared women..."I'm not going to kill you because you're a woman."

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January 9, 2015

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http://www.smh.com.au/world/im-not-going-to-kill-you-because-youre-a-woman-charlie-hebdo-shooters-spared-female-journalists-20150109-12kmpa.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&eid=socialn:twi-13omn1677-edtrl-other:nnn-17/02/2014-edtrs_socialshare-all-nnn-nnn-vars-o&sa=D&usg=ALhdy28zsr6qiq

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Title	Paris killers spared women..."I'm not going to kill you because you're a woman."
Author	[deleted]
Upvotes	0
Comments	10
Date	January 9, 2015 1:55 AM UTC (11 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/2rt7kx/paris_killers_spared_womenim_not_going_to_kill/
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[–]Lurker_IV 3 points4 points5 points 11 years ago (7 children) | Copy Link

[–]xynomaster 1 point2 points3 points 11 years ago* (5 children) | Copy Link

You're right, we definitely don't want terrorists to kill more women.

But drawing attention to the underlying ideas that cause terrorists kill only men is helpful, given that these ideas are also present (to a lesser extent) in Western society. Basically that women are more "precious" than men, and therefore more deserving of protection.

That's why reading these kinds of stories leaves me kind of torn. I'm glad that they didn't kill the women because that means more people get to live, but it's also kind of sad because it reinforces the belief that people everywhere have that somehow refusing to harm women makes the whole thing more okay, or makes the terrorists less evil.

And what's even more frustrating is when people refuse to acknowledge that this gender-based violence against men exists. When terrorists raid a village in Iraq and take all the little girls as sex slaves, that's gender-based violence. But for some reason, when they execute all the little boys or force them to become soldiers, that's just regular violence and therefore less important.

[–]Lurker_IV 0 points1 point2 points 11 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

[–]xynomaster 0 points1 point2 points 11 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Why not, exactly? As I've explained, we are not at all saying we want more women to be killed by terrorists. The same way that when feminists who fight for female victims of rape aren't trying to say more men should be raped.

What we're discussing is the idea, in many parts of the world, that killing any man, for whatever reason, is somehow an acceptable act. It doesn't matter if he's done anything wrong, whether he is a combatant or a civilian, or how old he is (as long as he's beyond whatever that person's definition of "man" is). To many people, his death is justified simply because of the fact that he was a man.

See : http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/18/slain-nj-teen-was-shot-8-times-alleged-jihadist-wh/

Terrorist shoots a random, completely innocent 19-year old American college kid, calls it a "just kill" because no women or children were present.

Again, not trying to say that they should also start killing woman, but that an important step in stopping the death of any innocent person is to attack the widespread idea that men are somehow by default not innocent.

This is an ideology that gets hundreds of thousands of men across the world killed all the time. I don't see what other topics could possibly be more important than this.

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