“It was a crime of passion”
“She’s mine or nobody else’s”
“The killer is never the man; it’s his passion”
These are just a few of the tropes or linguistic flags, which cloud the true nature of events and distort reality.

They call them crimes of passion, fits of madness, fatal accidents. Those who carry out these acts describe how they lost their head, how it all happened in the blink of an eye, how they loved the woman they killed. This is false.
The facts speak for themselves: one woman is murdered every two days. And however much we continue to try to dismiss them as once-off cases of circumscribed insanity, it is increasingly clear that feminicides are a cultural phenomenon. In this process of minimization the words we use to describe men, women, and the relations between them, carry an enormous weight, which continues to be grossly underrated by public figures and those who must account for what is happening. If, in recent years associations have protested against sexist advertising, women have mobilized to demand greater respect from the institutions, have united in calling for greater investments in anti-violence centres and shelters for victims of abuse, at the same time professional wordsmiths – male and female journalists, television hosts and opinion makers at all levels of the media – have only very rarely felt a similarly strong need to reflect on the language that describes relations between the sexes and its consequences. This book sets out to dismantle the most obstinate clichés regarding feminicide. It starts with the words used to reinterpret and deconstruct the collective imagination….in the hope that these words can change and with them, reality itself.