1.As facts start coming in about the Louisiana movie theater killer John Russell Houser, a picture is starting to form.
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2. “He was anti-abortion.... Rusty had an issue with feminine [sic] rights. He was opposed to women having a say in anything."
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3. Note the movie that he went into to launch his killing spree: Trainwreck, about a sexually active woman starring a feminist actress.
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@NussbaumAbigail Given how much attention Schumer has been getting for her feminism...unlikely...the choice of film was coincidental.3 replies 30 retweets 25 likes -
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5. If the past is prologue, there will be willful denial that misogyny was a factor in killing, and that misogyny has political component
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6. Obvious parallel here is 1989 Montreal Massacre when Marc Lépine killed 14 women he called "a bunch of feminists"
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7. What's interesting about Montreal massacre is despite killer's own words, there are some who refuse to see it as anti-feminist terrorism
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8. There's definitely a strain of denial in response to misogynist violence, a tendency to see it as "crazy" & part of life, not political.
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@dporges Definitely a factor, yes.
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