HIMPATHY: empathy for men who kill women This article by Julie Bindel analyses why in every case of feminicide one always empathically looks for 'reasons' that can somehow justify the murderer (better said: one looks for ways to give him some reasons). He was depressed, unemployed, distressed, exhausted, blinded by jealousy. Exasperated. So he killed her. Of course, he shouldn't have done it: but that's why he did it. The media constantly and methodically do this job: they look for the "reasons", they try [...]