Marina Hyde in the Guardian.
Women killed: 118. Statues ‘killed’: 1. So guess which is the national priority?
The whole article is the usual misleading nonsense – not least that the defacing and removal of statues is an entirely different discussion to murder.
However, seeing as we are dealing with murder, I don’t have the most up to date figures that Hyde appears to have, but the ONS figures for 2019/20 give us this:
There were 695 victims of homicide in the year ending March 2020, 47 more (7%) than the previous year; this figure includes the Grays lorry incident with 39 homicide victims – if this incident is excluded, homicide showed a 1% increase overall.
And the breakdown?
The homicide rate was 11.7 per million population, with the rate for males (17 per million population) almost three times that for females (6 per million population); this is a higher difference than previous years because of a 20% increase in the number of male victims, from 422 to 506, and a 16% decrease in the number of female victims, from 225 to 188.
The figures speak for themselves and I suspect that when the ONS results for this year are published, we will find that Hyde has been disingenuous as the ratio is likely to be much the same although if her figure of 118 is to be believed, then the incidence of female victims has fallen again. The reality is that the streets are far more unsafe for men. It is men who are more likely to be killed than women.
Almost three-quarters of all victims were male (73%) and just over a quarter were female (27%).
The number of female victims in the last year (188) has returned to the levels seen between year ending March 2012 and year ending March 2017, following the two previous years when the number of these victims were higher. The latest figure is similar to the average of the previous 10 years (189 female victims per year).
The incidence of male victims has risen while female homicides has fallen, yet people blindly go along with the hysterical rhetoric being peddled by the feminist activists and their enablers in the press.
So, yes, there is a conversation to be had about how the streets can be made safer – for everyone. There is a conversation to be had about policing and whether the law and sentencing needs to be amended.
But we cannot have a sensible discussion or even a rational solution when we have activists and journalists deliberately obfuscating the reality (that’s a fancy way of saying lying – Ed) – that this is not a sex based issue, or if it is, then men are more likely to die a violent death than women. But for the misandrists, one recent murder is all the excuse they need to peddle their man hating poison and in so doing, set back their own cause.
Although I increasingly find myself wondering is setting men against women is simply part of their toxic agenda.
‘Although I increasingly find myself wondering is setting men against women is simply part of their toxic agenda.’
Yes, yes it is.
As with the George Floyd case, these events are spun not due to the actions of individuals but as examples of systemic racism/sexism (critical theorist interpretation), thereby demonstrating that the whole edifice of Western Civilisation is rotten and needs pulling down.
Hyde is just another one of those posh champagne socialists who came from a very nice background and went to very nice fee paying schools who secreted herself in The Guardian by changing from her double barrelled family name and now scoffs at the rest of us from her luxury home whilst pretending to be an ally of the working classes.
Rumours are that she is in training to be the next Polly Toynbee when that old goat ceases to be able to hold her bowels long enough to write an article.
I’ve put this data into graphical form: https://some-thoughts-gb.blogspot.com/2021/03/on-murder-stats.html
Davina McCall’s post defending men was entertaining
Oh Dear, oh dear – it is Rare
@Andy ex-Taiwan (The verboten word in WHO)
Thanks
“You made your bed, now lie in it”
Backed by JHB, Steve Baker, Desmond Swayne, Mike Graham, Laurence Fox, Brendan O’Neil and many more
https://lockdownsceptics.org/2021/03/14/first-they-came-for-the-anti-lockdown-protestors/
The kids have been back at school for less than four days and there’s been two stabbing incidents in my borough. All boys.
There is a reasonable probability that women are more at risk from male policemen than from any other group.
If you take the total number of policemen then add up all the assaults by uniformed thugs on protesters, picnicers, dog walkers, duck feeders, parents walking their children in the park etc, it is evident that the police are far more likely to assault women than the average male.
Therefore to keep wimminz safe the only answer is a curfew on male police IF you subscribe to their logic
Of course if women took to living in caravans and selling scrap metal they would be fully protected,