The rest of them are just girls on various modes of transport
Nine out of ten bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered
Submitted 1 hour ago by Biscuitt@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/14/nine-of-ten-bestselling-novels-uk-woman-murdered
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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 minutes ago
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 49 minutes ago
schwim@piefed.zip 1 hour ago
The trend was highlighted on Instagram by the author Wendy Jones, who wrote: “So 84% [sic] of the books people bought and read in the UK this week involved a woman being murdered for entertainment. What is going on here?”
It looks like the majority of the authors are women so it seems to me that perhaps it’s a sociological statement by the authors.
tal@lemmy.today 45 minutes ago
Critics argue that repeatedly turning women into victims risks normalising violence against them.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Homicide_statistics_by_gender
At a global level, men represent both the majority of victims and the majority of perpetrators of homicide. According to the 2023 UNODC Global Study on Homicide, in 2021, at a global level, 81% of homicide victims were men.[1] In 2021, males accounted for most homicide victims in all jurisdictions except in Austria, the Czech Republic, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Slovenia and Switzerland, where females were slightly more likely to be homicide victims.[2] The global homicide rate was 9.3 per 100,000 males and 2.2 per 100,000 females; and 90% of homicide suspects brought into formal contact with the police were men.[2]
I wouldn’t be too concerned.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 minutes ago
Be sincere, what are the chances for you to empathize with the victim if it was a regular average mundane dude? Imagine the detective bursting out, “Damn you! He was a working man! He liked watching soccer!”
People will hardly empathize with the death of a random man. You’d need to make him an important character.