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Italy’s parliament on Tuesday approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison.

The vote coincided with the international day for the elimination of violence against women, a day designated by the U.N. General Assembly.

The law won bipartisan support from the center-right majority and the center-left opposition in the final vote in the Lower Chamber, passing with 237 votes in favor.

The law, backed by the conservative government of Premier Giorgia Meloni, comes in response to a series of killings and other violence targeting women in Italy. It includes stronger measures against gender-based crimes including stalking and revenge porn.

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[–] ISuperabound@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

No. The law has nothing to do with skipping trials or mandatory minimums.

It’s just a new way to charge somebody, and the sentence is the same as murder.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ah I see. So somebody would be convicted of femicide instead of murder. What’s the intended affect of that?

[–] ISuperabound@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Appropriate culpability and awareness. The law is designed to both serve as a mechanism for appropriate justice, as well as a way to highlight and ongoing problem in Italian culture.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Got it. It’s more than just murder. There should be a word for rape by men as well.

[–] ISuperabound@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

It’s not “more than murder”, no. It’s a type of murder.

No there shouldn’t, the vast majority of cases of rapes are committed by men. If you were being logically consistent, you’d advocate for a different word/charge for cases of rape against men - because that’s one of the largest category of unreported sexual crime.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I appreciate you making the effort here to try to speak reason to a lot of really, really triggered men. It's kind of absurd how even on what you would think is a largely progressive/leftist site like Lemmy, the moment a story about disproportionate issues between genders comes up, suddenly every other guy sprouts the biggest, bushiest beard from their necks and starts talking about why there aren't enough state-mandated programs to help short, angry men get girlfriends or whatever.

[–] ISuperabound@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

“Triggered” is really good way to categorize these responses.

The topic makes them project concepts onto it, like the perpetrators must be male - which is basically telling on themselves.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I am seeing an absolute ocean of butthurt men in this post, and not a single alternative, solution or idea for making a more just and fair world in the face of an imbalanced problem. Everyone treats this like some kind of logic puzzle. "Well we don't do X when Y is a problem, why should we we treat THIS any different?" as if the world is based on some kind of symmetrical, blind logic system and all things are equal.

I used to moderate a large gender-related subreddit, it was a nightmare. If you ever want to lose all faith in humanity, have a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the really bad shit that gets removed right away.

[–] ISuperabound@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

I absolutely agree. In my mind this is an example where people could be “yes-and”ing the law: Yes, female victims absolutely need more nuanced protection, and male sexual assault victims need more nuanced protection (for example).

The reason you don’t see a lot of these folks arguing for a men’s equivalent…is they know that it’s functionally not a problem…which also undercuts their own argument.

I can imagine…I work in poverty outreach and with at risk youth…I hear some grotesque things from across the spectrum.

I’m a full Reddit refugee…a few months ago I got a 3 day auto ban for directly quoting Worf from Star Trek. Not going back, this time…the time I was away from it made me realize what an enshitified mess it has become.