“Ottawa had 16 homicides in 2022—and nearly half of the victims were women or girls.”

That rhetorical erasure of male victims has been documented since at least the 2000s and has been criticized repeatedly:

Adam Jones - Effacing the Male: Gender, Misrepresentation, and Exclusion in the Kosovo War (2001) adamjones.freeservers.c…

ManWomanMyth - Misandry - Men Don't Exist (2015) youtube.com/watch?v=Eka…