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Women in the Army Are More Likely to Be Killed by Fellow Soldiers Than Enemy Combatants
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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It’s not a misleading headline.
Women in the army are more likely to be killed by fellow soldiers than enemy combatants.
Then the article does a great job explaining the title.
Ok, so the headline reads:
Well the clear implication by saying "women" in that headline, is that this is not the case for men. But I don't see where that case is made.
Another way this could be addressed is by simply dropping the comparison to enemy combatants. If the headline had instead compared women in the military to men in the military, they'd eliminate any ambiguity.
And I agree that the article is great, and the effort behind it must have been extensive. It's just that the headline seems disingenuous.
That’s not what they’re comparing though. They’re comparing the rates of homicide and violence against women in the army against rates of violence against women in general.
The title doesn’t need to mention men.
The headline does not compare women in the army to women in general.
The headline compares fellow soldiers to enemy combatants (in the context of the deaths of women in the army).
The argument you're making is a core part of the problem, because the rest of the article does indeed mostly compare the violence against women in the army to violence against women in general. But if that's what the article is about, why does the headline state something completely different? This is the problem.
Did you read the article?
It goes into detail and does compare the violence women in the army experience to general population of women.
Talking about women doesn’t necessitate talking about men.
That's exactly what I just said
The headline doesn’t say something different.
Men arent being murdered by their fellow servicemen at the rate women are because of the reasons outlined in the article: intimate partner violence and misogyny. Men already overwhelmingly murder women and it’s not any different in the army.
Looking at the numbers of women murdered and sexually assaulted doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen to men.