Three women contract HIV from dirty “vampire facials” at unlicensed spa
arstechnica.com
Five patients with links to the spa had viral genetic sequences that closely matched.

I never went as far as to defend Gwyneth Paltrow, but after her Hot Ones appearance I created a post (which I will link in the comments) where I suggested that she’s done no more harm than male grifters and that the dislike of her as a person was primarily due to misogyny. That’s before I learned about her promotion of these unproven “vampire facials”. Now an unlicensed clinic performing this procedure has given at least three women HIV. You guys were right and I was wrong.

  • macrocarpa@lemmy.world
    151·
    8 months ago

    Story time.

    During a conversation amongst friends the topic of male on female violence came up. there was recently a stabbing attack in Australia where a schizophrenic man stabbed and killed multiple women in a Sydney shopping centre.

    A female friend raised the statistic that 26 women had been killed in the first 114 days of 2024. She made a point of saying Every 4.38 days a woman is violently killed

    I asked - because I didn’t know - Is that like heaps more than last year?how many people would normally die in the same period?

    She said "that’s a pretty misogynistic thing to say”

    So I googled it and I can’t even find the homicide rate in Australia for 2024.

    I am really fucking irritated about this. I assume she had assumed from my question that I was waving off the importance of gender in gendered violence but how that translates into misogyny is beyond me

    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      56·
      8 months ago

      People have their own agendas and biases.

      Did you know that Conservatives in America perform 95% of the crimes in America?