The problem isn’t the lockdown. Or Coronavirus. Lots of women are struggling with increased caring responsibilities, financial pressures, balancing working from home with childcare... But women aren’t stabbing people. It’s male violence against women. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-struggling-cope-coronavirus-lockdown-21812770?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Even before the lockdown, an average of two women were killed by men every single week. These domestic homicides are not new. They are more of the same male violence against women. Headlines framing lockdown as an extenuating circumstance normalise that violence.