Viricide or androcide; viricide is more etymologically consistent, but I expect would be less common (if either term were common at all, which they aren’t)
If you think of it, it’s for the sad reason that men are kind of expected to be killed, by war, conflict, work, disease, etc. In a way the “default” for murder became related to how men most often die. This is still sexism, however.
Is there a word for killing someone because he’s a man? Not trying to be “that guy” but I literally only just heard the word femicide and am curious.
I guess you would call it andricide?
Like when Israel kills Palestinian kids when they are boys but not when they are girls in similar situations because they are “likely combatants”.
Or the thing that happened in Paraguay where the genocide was very much focused on men because they were men.
TBH we should stop all violence, and if this categorisation helps prevention, go for it.
Viricide or androcide; viricide is more etymologically consistent, but I expect would be less common (if either term were common at all, which they aren’t)
Viricide sounds like a topical cream for an STD
That would be virucide :P
Mixing Greek and Latin word fragments is so common that I don’t think one more is going to make a difference.
If you think of it, it’s for the sad reason that men are kind of expected to be killed, by war, conflict, work, disease, etc. In a way the “default” for murder became related to how men most often die. This is still sexism, however.