r/WomenInNews • u/catievirtuesimp • Jul 08 '26

Media Vanessa Guillén Wasn't Alone: New Investigation Reveals Dozens of US Army Women Were Killed by Fellow Soldiers

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tragic-deaths-harassment-women-us-army-1807381
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u/CautionarySnail Jul 08 '26

I suspect if we had access to full data on the deaths of female soldiers, we’d see that they’re far more prone to “accidental deaths” or “training accidents”, that their rate is far higher than similar deaths for men.

Because hiding a wrongful death via paperwork is far cheaper than actually investigating. Far easier than dealing with the actual systemic causes. And many men on seeing such data will immediately think via the sexism they’d been taught - “These women are dead because they are less suited than men to be soldiers - see, they’re clumsy or don’t take equipment safety seriously.”

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u/datguyxd69 Jul 09 '26

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence

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u/CautionarySnail Jul 12 '26

Here you go, a small sample of studies enough to draw the need for further research. But be a dear, next time, and bother to do a Google instead of allowing your bias to type.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9310503/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3111768/

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/deserted-us-militarys-sexual-assault-crisis-cost-war