Someone, maybe who is more knowledgeable, can educate and correct me, i could be naive.

There is a new “trend” to change your profile picture to purple or to add purple to your current profile picture to spread awareness for the femicide in South Africa, which is now declared as a national disaster.

The thing I don’t understand is why the definition for femicide is very different to the term androcide which is quite literally the antonym and is the intentional killing of a man because of their sex. Femicide is a very broad term that can be used even when their male partner kills them, or just because of how they’re dressed (which can kind of make sense for the definition, but still not good enough). Now if you flip the genders and swap the roles, it’s not considered androcide. I understand that 77% of women vs 23% of men are killed by their intimate partner but 72%, England and Wales, and 77.7%, USA, of homicide victims were males and in the 28% of the females (England and Wales), 60% of the female deaths were intimate partner related. The people’s argument is that the femicide rate in South Africa is 5x higher than any other country, UN statistic, but the count is pretty low compared to the number of homicides that happen in that country.

My point is that I understand that this is a big issue for women, but why does androcide not have more awareness, I saw a Reddit post saying that it was due to us being “expendable”. There should be this amount of awareness for rape and SA for women, and more light shined for androcide. btw let’s not forget that these homicide statistics exclude casualties in wars (88.1% of men make up the army in the UK, and 84% in the US army). Another Reddit post, I saw, fed me with some disheartening statistics. On Google, searching up femicides gives you 6,200,000 results whilst androcide outputs 13,000… In my opinion, there should be concrete evidence that the kill was gender motivated and not as simple as labelling it a femicide, as I’ve also heard that most cases where it could’ve been labelled androcide for a woman killing a man, itd be classed as self defence (someone can verify or correct me on that as I’ve not researched that one).