Today marks 35 years since a gunman entered Polytechnique, separated the men from the women & shot 14 women to death.
It is now Canada's National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence against Women.
Threads suck on this app but going to try and include my thoughts here as possible : 🧵
It is now Canada's National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence against Women.
Threads suck on this app but going to try and include my thoughts here as possible : 🧵
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Intergenerational discussions are so important for us to connect the dots.
Men will write manifestos, they will make lengthy YouTube videos, they will say it with their full chest : I hate women and want them to die.
And still, we question why women keep dying.
https://fashionmagazine.com/flare/identity-politics/violence-against-women-in-canada/
Mass murders committed by men, motivated by misogyny.
Yet, we learn nothing.
He did not go into a woman's house.
He did not enter the nursing department.
He killed 14 women because they were studying in a male dominated field.
His target were *feminists*.
He was motivated by bone deep hatred of feminism.
He was too stupid to get into the engineering program & concluded that his place was taken by an undeserving woman.
All sounds mighty familiar, no?
I think I would have left as well. If I was a man I would have probably been gone before I even really registered what was happening.
This is always an extremely hard day as a woman in engineering.
What's the reason for this hostility that some, men mainly, have to women? Throughout history women have had to endure systematic torture & abuse in various forms. Is it more of the same? Noam Shpancer gives us a bit to think about in "When Men Attack: Why (and Which) Men Sexually Assault Women".