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"Honor Killings" ... "Dowry Deaths" ... Whatever
There seem to be many different "cultural" explanations and terms for instances when men kill women, the implication being that it's not murder, but rather a culturally justifiable practice with which we disagree.
Meanwhile, it also seems that no matter what culture we're talking about, when a woman kills a man it is always called the exact same thing: "murder." And the murderer is treated as such. None of this "Oh, well, it's just their way I suppose," when a woman kills a man.
These terms given to the murder of women by men is nothing more than men in male-dominated societies justifying the brutal killing of the opposite sex.
(I'm a dude.)