The murders sparked protests in Messina, Rome and other Italian cities, including Bologna, on Wednesday night. Further events are planned on Thursday.

In March, Giorgia Meloni’s government approved a draft law which for the first time introduced a legal definition of femicide in criminal law, punishing it with life in prison while increasing sentences for crimes including stalking, sexual violence and “revenge porn”.

The law followed the strong public reaction to the killing of Giulia Cecchettin, a 22-year-old student who was murdered by her former boyfriend, Filippo Turetta, in November 2023. Turetta was sentenced to life in prison in December.

  • EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Just FYI, you’re arguing with someone that agrees with you.

    I agree with you too, but only about your main point. Not “all men.”

    That assumption is the same logic as bigots and the very “men” you are trying to chastize. Let me just rephrase what you wrote to make my point:

    It truly is ‘all women’ when it comes to a discussion about being involuntarily celibate. Using whataboutism to studiously ignore the issue at hand.

    You literally are using the same arguments that incels do to justify their hatred and punishment of women.

    Just changing the who and what in that argument does not make it a logically sound one.

    Anecdotally, I’m a man, and one that has literally saved a woman from being arrested for assault because I recognized she was having an extreme bipolar manic episode, and not just “going crazy” like her female friends believed when they called the cops on her.

    The belief our penis prevents us from acting humane is laughable bigotry.

    If you want to make a scientific point, don’t follow it with unscientific insults.