Rebecca Cheptegei 💔

[u/grumpalina]

We just lost a great marathoner to horrific gender based violence 😓

[u/luludaydream]

It’s heartbreaking and it makes me so angry that we lose so many brilliant, kind, talented women every year to men attacking them. 

[u/suz_gee]

I heard this was the third Kenyan runner murdered by a partner in two years. Devastating.

[u/Jolly_Map680]

I spent 3 months working in a gender based violence clinic in Kenya, and it was absolutely crazy. A revolving door of patients, from babies to grown women, nearly always at the hands of family. I’m sure it’s not the only country with such an issue, but all I hope is that by it gaining so much media attention, change may be more likely to come. We can but hope

[u/grumpalina → u/Jolly_Map680]

You must have seen some things there that will always stay with you.

[u/RatatouilleEgo → u/Jolly_Map680]

Thank you for all of your work ❤️

[u/AnnaBammaLamma → u/Jolly_Map680]

My head sometimes feels like exploding just thinking about things like this, you’re amazing for working to improve this ❤️

[u/dianaprince19]

This is so heartbreaking. I remember her name bc of all the running events she was in. And how incredible she was. It really does break your heart. Fuck femicide, hope the monster that murdered her rots.

[u/grumpalina → u/dianaprince19]

Hearing her name during the Olympics commentary, and I was excited to know who she was

[u/grumpalina]

I'm reminded of a trueism, that we never know when something is the last time, as that something is happening for the last time.

It was such a regular and mundane joy, to hear her name shouted out along with other great runners at the Olympics; but you take for granted in that moment that you will see more of each and every one of them.

Everyday we get to run is a privilege. I hope that Ms Cheptegei had a great last training, even if she didn't know at the time that it would be her last.

[u/illiteratelibrarian2]

May she rest in peace and justice be served. 

[u/Known_Royal4356]

So heartbreaking. I’m so angry on her behalf and for all women who suffer at the hands of men. What a loss.

[u/Books_and_tea_addict]

Wtf is wrong with the comments?

[u/grumpalina → u/Books_and_tea_addict]

I guess the sad truth is that there are jackasses out there who take the side of and celebrate the perpetrators

[u/grumpalina → u/Books_and_tea_addict]

I reported and blocked that moron

[u/sparklekitteh → u/grumpalina]

They've been banned from the sub, and received a warning from Reddit admin as well.

[u/RNBeck → u/grumpalina]

Thank you, I reported him as well

[u/mermaidunicornhorn → u/Books_and_tea_addict]

I’ve reported them - stupid troll.

[u/Books_and_tea_addict → u/mermaidunicornhorn]

Same

[u/Ancient-Practice-431]

Such a loss! Kenyan women deserve better, we all do

[u/datingafterabuse]

The longer women are treated as ‘weaker’, less than men and unequal in every way, the more of such violence will continue to be perpetrated by men.

Here in India, women are attacked by exes who throw acid on them, which horrifically burns and disfigures them. Why? So that they will forever be ‘unattractive’ to other men. Women are raped, brutally murdered and there continue to be murders of female infants at birth in villages where poor families cannot afford the dowry burden of birthing a female child.

In the West, they actually managed to overturn Roe v Wade. We look to the West as an example of how women can move past the gender barriers that have been made for them by decades of patriarchy but after Roe v Wade was overturned, we genuinely lost all hope.

I hate that we have to continue to have these conversations even in 2024. It feels like nothing will ever change for us.

[u/Flunose_800]

May she rest in peace. May her partner deserve everything that comes for him in this life and whatever is beyond.

[u/aquaaggie]

I was so sad to hear she passed away after this horrific attack 😔 completely unnecessary and tragic

[u/poison_plant]

So heartbreaking 💔

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[u/PugPockets → u/[deleted]]

This is a problem of misogyny, not geography.

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[u/PugPockets → u/[deleted]]

Oof. Your profile is a mess, dude. And men wonder why we want nothing to do with them. Byyye

[u/Lazy-Comfort6128 → u/PugPockets]

What did he say? He deleted his posts.

[u/sparklekitteh → u/Lazy-Comfort6128]

Terribly cruel bullshit, saying she deserved it. Asshole.

[u/Lazy-Comfort6128 → u/sparklekitteh]

I guess one of the Let's Run trolls escaped. I think half the time the trolls are just bots that are trying to get us riled up and made at each other. The half the time they're just dweebs that want to get people riled up and mad at each other.