“If they kill me, they will say I lived alone in Mexico City. They will say I was a feminist. They will invent everything to make me responsible for my murder,” one student wrote.

“#SiMeMatan it will be for being a Mexican journalist,” tweeted Laura Castellanos, a freelance reporter in Mexico.

Others suggested that they would be blamed for going outside alone, wearing a skirt or using contraceptives.

That reaction was sparked, in part, by a sad reality: Women in Mexico are being abducted, raped and killed at record rates. Almost half of the country's female population said that it's experienced domestic violence. Between 2013 and 2014, seven women were killed every day in the country. Between 2001 and 2010, the number of women killed in Mexico's biggest drug battlegrounds jumped 500 percent. Thousands of others have disappeared.

“Violence against women isn't an epidemic, it's a pandemic in Mexico,” Ana Güezmez, the country's representative to United Nations Women, told Reuters.

And female victims have few options. In 2014, just 1 in 10 sexual assaults was reported to local authorities, according to Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography. The Mexican government’s National Institute for Women says more than 80 percent of sexual assaults are not reported, and barely 4.5 percent of criminals face sentencing in Mexico.