December 6
Today is the day when we are subjected to all kinds of diatribes about the "culture of male violence" in commemoration of the 1989 Montreal Massacre.
Here, Mark Steyn suggests that it's time that "wimmin" start recognizing that the violence was the work of a lone, crazed Algerian gunman who grew up in a less-than-healthy environment. The murders, while deplorable, were not exactly symptomatic of the so-called propensity of all men to take a few rounds out of their wives, daughters, mothers, mothers-in-law, daughters-in-law, sisters, sisters-in-law, aunts, female bosses, co-workers, neighbours, and anyone who cuts them off in traffic who happens to be in possession of a female body part.
Nevertheless, we should probably expect the usual politicization today, and I don't see that changing anytime soon unless more people like Steyn tell it like it really is.
posted by Road Hammer @ 7:23 AM
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4 Comments:
The radical feminist movement makes no distinction between the actions of a lone, crazed gunman who didn't share Canadian values and the male gender as a whole.
That cannot be denied.
If a woman did what Lepine did, it would have been a distant memory by now. You certainly would not have men's rights groups (as if they exist anyways) suggesting that all women are capable of the same thing, 16 years after the original incident.
The Montreal massacre should be seen as the isolated incident it was.
No.
Saying that all men are capable of doing what Lepine did on December 6 is like saying all Muslims are capable of terrorism because of what al-Qaeda did on September 11.
How many more massacres of women by crazed gunmen have happened in the last 16 years in Canada, anyways? None, that I can recall.
What I would argue for is a targetted effort to stop the people who are most likely to carry out violence, whether that be abuse against women or mass murders of innocent people in office building.
It doesn't mean that people who resemble a person who carried out those type of attacks in the past should be characterized as likely to do something similar, like the wimmin's groups do with men every December 6.
The bottom line is that it should be recognized that Lepine was not representative of all men, as we have bent over ass-backwards to recognize that not all Muslims are al-Qaeda members.
Too many women are battered, but I would not suggest that it is an epidemic of any kind.
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