I’m not debating the underlying similarity, which is that most women’s deaths are within the domestic realm. That cannot be debated, but that is a fact everywhere. I am saying that there are nuances, not to just be explained so simply with “the victims are women and machismo is bad” (which it is, I’m not debating that). What I am saying is that there are nuances in the particular countries you outlined that come down to various things like race, and even women involved in crime, be it directly or indirectly e.g. gang culture (this can be charted in certain countries with the rate of which women are going to prison).
Feminism is gaining traction in particular South American countries, modernity etc. which should mean that the numbers should be charting in the other direction. But they’re not. Are we to believe that our generation is getting worse than those of our predecessors in terms of the way they treat women? Or are there other factors contributing to these occurrences that we are being blind to because of the general bias we have of what women are?
I am not negating the terrible specific deaths and crimes that have been outlined in this thread. But I could pull those from Jamaica, South Africa, India.
Serious topics deserve serious discourse
Wherever you pull stats from doesn’t change the fact that Latin America has become the most dangerous place for a woman.
Feminism is still a unfamiliar concept and the ”machista” culture that Is woven into every element of society in Latin America is very much correlated with the results of women dying in Latin America more than anywhere else on earth. Ofcourse this doesn’t mean that this isn’t a everywhere.
But the problem is extremely dangerous in Latin America. Simply saying “it happens all around the world” doesn’t do justice to the large, unreal scale of this problem in hispanic communities. It doesn’t do justice to the victims, it down plays the seriousness and severity of something (that as you mentioned) is getting worse, not better with laws and small grassroots feminism starting to raise awareness. There is a clear pushback towards women and their place in society in Latin America. Women are demanding not to be killed, and more are being killed as a result.
Most people outside of Latin America and Hispanic communities don’t even know this problem exists or even have any clue just how LARGE this femicide epidemic is. We are talking a Hispanic woman being killed every 2 hours. Since this thread has been made a woman in Latin America has been murdered for being a woman and not knowing her place in the machista society.
People are well aware of Middle Eastern society and the lack of perceived rights Middle Eastern women have, but are completely clueless about a even more dangerous, violent, oppressive machista culture that is statistically worse for women’s rights than the strictest Islamic laws.