Cis male lives only count as 50% of a real life. Half the X chromosome count, half the value.

Yeah, it must be all that frustrated homosexuality that’s to blame!

Respectfully I ask you to not whitewash black men who are murdered at a rate that so far outstrips white women it beggars belief. The original post whitewashes them by combining ‘generation’ which is the massive bulk of the victims with women. Gun violence against women is a huge issue, but to pretend that black men’s…

It is a flippant phrase but he is right to call out her bs mixing of generation/gender. She is taking the deaths of black men (massively disproportionately victims of gun murders) and trying to blend that into 'generation'. Totally lacks intersectional thinking.

I think she was just trying to get Schumer on board. We shouldn’t have to convince men that it’s a “men’s problem” to get their help, and we shouldn’t have to convince women it’s a “women’s problem” to get their help either. Clement’s rhetoric was ultimately not grounded in fact, and that’s a shame.

As a black woman, this is pretty common....they like to center themselves in ALL discussions b/c even in their “concern” about women who are victims, I knew damn well they don’t include me in their ranks.

well, that seems to be a tenet of white feminism so color me surprised...

The Internet is replete with wealthy white women wagging their finger at poor black men for being the agents of their own victimhood. It’s disgusting—and some would sully the name of feminism by pretending they’re feminists.

Maleness, blackness, and poverty are the three factors that make a person more likely to commit crime. This does not excuse nor explain the preponderance of male, black, and poor victims.

Hey, I get where you’re coming from and I agree with what you’re saying. However, the whole video games leading to violence thing has been debunked by many studies.

Women should feel free to stop dating abusers and murderers.

Is there any evidence that sexism is at play in the majority of cases when women are killed?

You know you are much safer with the US military, right?

It’s not derailing the conversation at all. You are trying to erase the vast majority of victims of gun violence who are male, in order to make this a war on women. If 84% of gun violence victims are male, how is focusing on the 16% out of context going to solve the problem?

Yes, I suspect you’re right. Both sides put out so much BS on the issue that finding reliable information is difficult, to say the least. Even when reliable information is found, it is roundly ignored by partisans who’s world view it doesn’t support.

Innocent in this usage meaning not directly involved in a criminal lifestyle, so male crooks shooting male crooks doesn’t count.

Guns. But that isn’t important on Jezebel. Only women’s deaths count here.

In the letter, Clements calls on the actress to “demand change” and “Be a voice for our generation and for women — two groups who make up most of the victims of the gun violence in our country.”

Men killed by firearms 2001-2012 : 312,572

I was wondering about that also. But I am sure someone will come and spin it as “gun violence that is between genders” or “gun violence where the victim is ‘innocent*’ and also not the perpetrator (suicides are excluded)” You know, just keep adding exceptions until the statement is technically true.