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The Alternative to Manslaughter
Right now in most legal systems, they make some kind of differentiation between manslaughter and second degree murder. I do think that there needs to be sort of the almost like the female equivalent of like the sex gone wrong defense where when a woman does kill her abuser, that her defense is the battered women defense. And this is a law that feminists have been trying to pass for quite a long time. Women are seen as more manipulative because men can just go up and punch someone while we don't have that physical strength. It's no surprise that men essentially demonize women’s ability to plan ahead. We have to be smarter and it's basically our brain saying ‘We need to use