Rebecca Cheptegei: Olympic athlete dies days after being set alight by ex-boyfriend

End femicide!

Curious downvotes on this one.
- Lemmy is a quite misogynistic place.
  Its often no fun to be a woman on here. They might rip you apart, if you say something slightly feminist (depending on where you say it). Made me think of leaving several times already.
- Hopefully it was from the perspective that the comment is not helpful in reducing the number of murders of women.
  I don't know, I don't personally see the harm in merely motivational comments or rants. But I thought it might be that.
- Lemmy is filled with the most opinionated kind of Redditors and Russians it can fit on the servers, it's a moderator miracle it didn't go full incel.
- Not really. Specifically saying "end femicide" is like fundraising for breast cancer treatment, but only for men, who are a small minority of those with breast cancer.
  You are over three times less likely to be a victim of murder (in the US at least) if you are a woman, than a man.
  There is zero reason to oppose murder of one sex any more or less than the other, and it takes the same amount of effort to voice opposition for both, as for only one. So going out of your way to advocate only for the half of the population that suffers this fate far less often, understandably comes off as sexist and callous, to the objective observer.

That's awful

"The authorities in north-west Kenya, where Cheptegei lived and trained, said she was targeted after returning home from church with her two daughters."

it then has something about land and quarelling but its hard to get what happened.

"A report filed by a local administrator alleged the athlete and her ex-partner had been wrangling over a piece of land. Police say an investigation is under way. Cheptegei, from a region just across the border in Uganda, is said to have bought a plot in Trans Nzoia county and built a house to be near Kenya's elite athletics training centres."

it talks of her generosity and position as a bread winner. I wonder if he wanted her to buy it at some inflated price or some crap. I guess ultimately it does not matter what the stupidity was but for some reason im always trying to figure out the thinking from the nutter in the story. Luckily it does not mention injuries to the daughter although apparently he got himself somewhat but not enough to die.

I hope he survives and spends the rest of his life in extreme pain.

Just terrible.

If there were some kind of global women's vigilante network to handle these things, I would definitely not snitch.

Yeah, that never goes wrong.
https://news.sky.com/story/how-sweet-and-gentle-anti-paedophile-vigilante-was-allowed-to-bludgeon-innocent-man-to-death-12438351
https://www.thedailybeast.com/innocent-man-killed-during-vigilante-search-for-abducted-1-year-old-blaise-barnett-georgia-police-say
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/29/vigilante-murder-paedophile-bristol-bijan-ebrahimi
- Mob justice going wrong? No way!

WTF is wrong with people.

men*
Edit: lotta downvotes from men claiming to be leftists but bury their head in the sand when it's ever mentioned that violence, especially murder against women, is mostly committed by men. If your solidarity abruptly halts at issues like this and you call yourself a leftists, you're only kidding yourself and other sexist men.
Thanks for confirming beyond a doubt that Lemmy is just another "leftist" spaced filled with sexist men. Gross and so disappointing.
- Most of the replies you've received are trying to explain that saying "men" are what is wrong with "people" is a generalisation that is unhelpful and harms all men.
  It's true that the perp is a man, and it's also true that most violence against women is perpetrated by men. However, that doesn't mean there's a causal link between being a man and assaulting women.
  It's much more likely that the addressable causes underlying this "man's" actions are poverty, lack of mental health support, and cultural norms including but not limited to religion.
  When you suggest that "men" are the cause of what happened to this athlete, it's not surprising that men will be offended. To thereafter frame the obvious response as sexist is projection, frankly.
- Someone needs to learn that "strawberries are fruits, therefore all fruits are strawberries" is idiotic 'logic'.
  Basically 100% of parents who have killed their newborns by throwing them in dumpsters are women. Yet I have a feeling you'd instantly, somehow, understand the logical flaw in pointing to those instances and saying "what's wrong with women?", wouldn't you? Maybe something to do with the fact that the vast majority of women don't do that?
  It's only your misandry that prevents you from identifying the exact same illogic directed at the demographic you're bigoted toward.
- Yeah, it's because he was a man and not a horrible human. Gotcha.
- Would you please provide data supporting this stance?
- Peace. Don't associate with men. We will all be happier the fewer people you associate with.
- It’s insane you’re getting this downvoted. Domestic violence from men against women is a massive global issue, and putting your hands over your ears and saying “ well I’m not the problem” is not doing anything. This problem will never get solved until men take ownership over it and stop it.
- No.
- Oh boohoo did those mean men downvote you? Just another reason to mandate isolation of genders.
- Since i was a boy, i enjoyed the public library but i never understood why they always had loads of "romance novels" in a special section that only women frequented. when i was older it occurred to me to take a closer look and i was appalled. all women are disgusting. /s
- Oh stfu. And we could bring up a million other things that are committed mostly by women and you wouldn't say a fucking thing.

Wow. I hate humans: we were a mistake

*are
Hey that’s Fred Rogers you’re talking about here!
- It's the Exception that proves the rule, is it not?
  I wish the majority or at least a lot of people were like Mr. Rogers, but truth is, he was exceptional.
- He wasnt human. He was a spirit of light.
Yeah. Climate change is just the earth getting a fever in an attempt to rid itself of the human virus.
Part of my hopes it succeeds.

RIP. This is just such a sad story. I hoped things went better. I hoped she would recover. I guess the guy mentioning the 75% burn was not survivable was right this time.

Okay JFC who sets someone on fire over a land dispute!? I mean I'd be all for lighting, say, Kim Jong Un on fire, but that guy's a mad murdering sociopath. I dunno what penalties there are for egregiously horrible murder, but that guy deserves it.

Are there special punishments or charges for deluxe murder? Like murder with extra suffering? IDK humanity is pretty fucked up.

When my family murdered folks over land disputes the other folks did it first, we also used guns and a ditch. Seriously burning someone alive is something ya leave to trench fighters.
- What are you, a Hatfield?

😫

Seems like a Vat of acid would be justified there

I could have that arranged.
The vats aren't too big, but we have a few different acids. Nitric, hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, a few others.
- Id go with hydroflouric.
releases fake bones so the mob boss won't suspend anything.
- Been watching rick n morty i see

Oh no. This beautiful light extinguished from our eyes

Whoa... Bad choice of words...
Or great, depends on what you were going for...
- Agreed. Star would have implied because of her athletic skill, I meant because of her spirit.

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Women would be so much better off with out us.

How about we instead keep on teaching men healthy masculinity and create the foundations for a better society rather than keep "banning" everything bad.
An all women/men world would still have evil perpetrators.
"us" speak for yourself buddy but I have never lit a woman on fire and never will. We all would be better off without violent assholes regardless of their gender.
Some, not all, hopefully not most.
But Jesus, so many of us suck so hard.
Yeah, the bear argument applies here. The bear would just kill you. Man would make you suffer.

North west, bordering uganda. hmmm. i wonder if there is an islamic component to this? Or maybe a brain development problem. that region has a big problem with helminth infestation. A lot of poor rural kids have the worms and so, the immune system is inflamed and brain fails to develop. typical characteristic is inability to negotiate simple problems and turn on the other person in violent rage. its well documented. i have seen videos from rural west kenya of low iq parents beating their low iq children.

Listen buddy.
First of all, men are brutalizing women all over the world, every day, regardless of religion.
You should think about religion as less of a driver and more of a record. Like a dictionary.
People will do whatever they want to do, and then they will justify it. If there happens to be a few convenient passages in a religious text justifying setting your spouse on fire, they'll repeat that until they're blue in the face while dousing a woman in gasoline.
And sure, you can say that they use that text to tech their kids, but they're still just teaching the bits they want to.
The point is, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, doesn't matter. All major sacred books have bits about brutalizing women that step out of line, and the people that really like those bits tend to climg to them to justify being horrible fucking people.
- Why just the other day in springfield a woman was covered in pitch and lit on fire down the road from me. /BIG SARCASM
  I don't believe the brainworm excuse given by that user but I don't think it's a stretch to see how locality influences these problems.
“How can I blame muslims for this”
This happens thousands of times a day in the developed west
- Yes, sadly islam does happen thousands of times a day in the west. Not so sure about the chronic helminth infestation tho
i have seen videos from rural west kenya of low iq parents beating their low iq children.
Really didn't take long for this site to become the racist cesspit that reddit was. Impressive.
- They have chronic parasite infestation leading to mental retardation. its a medical problem.