http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/south-korea-not-doing-enough-to-protect-women-human-rights-watch/news-story/54e35a1eb79aeb43d27d302e16134df4This kind of thing in the media makes me grump a bit:
Alarmingly, South Korea had the third-highest rate at 52.5 per cent, of female murder victims in the world, a United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime report in 2014
revealed.
e.g. "Alarmingly", you're no more likely to be killed if your male or female. Things only
feel right if men are disproportionately being randomly killed.
Proportionate things aren't alarming, sorry.
However, overall homicide rates in South Korea, which has a population of 51.25 million people, were among the lowest in the world — below one per 100,000 people in 2012, the UN report said.
Oh right ... so it's like the
safest place in the world but because men aren't disproportionately being murdered compared to women, it's a problem. The article's twist is the real problem. Well I guess if there's a huge outbreak of gang-related murders causing male deaths to spike up, then that would fix the statistics problem according to this writer's logic.
In fact, the homicide rate for just women is about half in South Korea compared to wonderful USA. How is that a problem for South Korean women just because more men aren't being murdered? South Korean women are better off because both they themselves
and their male relatives are less likely to be murdered than in the USA. Shrieking about how it's terrible because there isn't a skewed gender balance to this statistic is clearly a load of B.S.
Reminds me of something I heard about during the 2008 recession. Some articles were ringing alarm bells because the
proportion of female work-related deaths had gone up from 7% to a bit higher. Somebody should do something to protect teh wimminz I tell you! However, the cause was statistical - total workplace deaths
fell because of all the construction workers laid off, and that caused a dip in male deaths, meaning that
relavtive to male deaths, female deaths now represented a bigger percentage. But still, the male percentage only dropped from 93% of workplace deaths to 80-something percent. Clearly, men were still bearing the brunt, but that's discounted completely - the rate
should be 100% male deaths or it's just no good!. But ... how is that
even feminist? If we give women all the same treatment, responsibilities and trust in their abilities that we give men, then the male/female workplace death ratio should
naturally approach 50% female deaths.
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