"Though no one would ever think of using the term honor violence (we reserve that descriptor for brown people who live somewhere else, motivated by religious something-or-other or tribal something-or-other), one-third of women murdered every year in the United States are killed by their intimate partners. In 2005 that amounted to 1,181 women, or three women every day. To put that in perspective, the UN estimates there are 5,000 honor killings every year in the entire world. 5,000 in a world of 6 billion versus nearly 1,200 in a single country of 300 million. In other words, a woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan."
Reblogged from sandwormsspiceandeverythingnice
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Feminists. (via popmuslim)
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
(via silverqueen)
Let me reiterate that for you all …
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
(via dank-potion)
I think you’ve missed a crutial point though, let me point it out:
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.
(via themindislimitless)
I’m going to go ahead and guess that more men are killed by their wives or girlfriends in the United States than in Pakistan, considering women commit quite a few domestic murders in the united states each year.
(via espionagis)
The point is that we think of the Middle East as a terrible place for women with oppressive laws and honor killings, when the truth is that technically it’s more dangerous to be a woman here.
(via stfuconservatives)
Just like to point out that the giant bolded addendums that people are pointing out is an extremely incorrect statement from a probabilistic standpoint, and is not supported by anything in the quote. What the quote is actually saying is that there are more women killed by their intimate partners per person in the United States than there are estimating honor killings per person in the world. This says noting about other, non-honor killings of women in those countries, nor about the distribution of those honor killings in the rest of the world. So it’s a pretty useless comparison to begin with.
In fact, because of this distribution, it would not be inconsistant to say that all honor-killing occurred in Pakistan, at least in the worst case analysis (I’m a Computer Science major, we assume that the world is always against you, and design to to the best besides that). Given that there are 177 million people in Pakistan, and let’s assume that exactly half of those are women (and that the US has the same equal distribution) and 5000 honor killings per year (again, the worst case is that all of the victims were women), that gives a probability of 5000 / (177 million / 2) = 5.65 x 10^{-5} of a random woman dying in a given year. Similarly, the US has a probability of 7.87 x 10^{-6}. So, comparing the ratio gives us a worse case of 7.18 honor deaths in Pakistan for every 1 women killed by their intimate partner in the US. So it is actually more consistant with the data to say that A woman in Pakistan may be over 7 times more likely to be killed for honor than a women in the US is to be murdered by her husband. I appreciate the idea behind this, but don’t try to use inaccurate/misleading information to make a point, it makes you seem incompetent at actually defending your point;.
