Killed women count | Demon Copperhead | From GP to 111 to A&E | Country diary philosophy | Baited breath
I fully support the motives behind your highlighting of the 80 women allegedly killed by men last year (Killed women count, 31 December). But it worries me that talking about women as victims simply reinforces the idea that women are weak and vulnerable, something which is done all the time in news reporting, films, television and so on. It would be interesting to know how many men were killed by men last year: I suspect a great deal more. Surely what we need to talk about, as a society, is male violence. The problem is not about vulnerable women, it is about violent men.
Anita Houghton
London
• Re your editorial on rewrites of classic novels (The Guardian view on rewriting classics: what the Dickens?, 30 December), I prefer to call Demon Copperhead, which I’m halfway through at the moment, a cover version rather than a rewrite. It’s up there with Johnny Cash’s version of Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt, and just as much a work of genius as David Copperfield.
Mark Print
Spratton, Northamptonshire
