Femicide from a feminist perspective by Bulbul Gupta

Femicide is the killing of women because they are women, because they are strong and practicing their freedom of choice, because they are entering male-dominated fields, because they are intelligent, and choosing to live their lives without depending on men for survival.
Femicide is a man specifically choosing women to kill because they threaten his masculinity, his "manly role" in the public sphere, because they choose to live as equals in a society that has not yet fully accepted them as such. Femicide is all those wonderful women's lives lost, all that amazing potential wasted, all those dreams killed, in a split second, because a man felt threatened, and chose that they should die.
Femicide is only one form of violence against women, but it is the extreme and works to control and subjugate women into unequal, second-class status, and out of the public sphere.
For me, femicide is the saddest form of violence against women because of its extremity, and because of the lives of the victims that it claims. On December 6, 1989, Marc Lepine massacred fourteen women students at the Montreal Polytechnique Institute,

voicing and acting on his hatred for feminists.

The women did not even claim themselves as feminists, and yet were killed because a man decided that their role in a male dominated profession threatened men's space. He decided that their feminism was invading his masculinity and they had to be elimi