On monday, a man in Toronto ran down pedestrians with a van. Majority of his victims were female. Hours after, a Facebook post surfaced of the terrorists link to a misogynistic pop-cultural group incel. Was this a targeted attack? Yes. Motivated by hate? Definitely!https://twitter.com/aushamaki/status/989913924333129729 …
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I had just handed in a sociological reflection journal on violence againast women and human rights days before the Monday. I was still reeling from the stories I had read in my research when my phone was insistently vibrating during my exam. My mum was calling to ask where I was.
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‘There has been a terrorist attack near your house.’ And I remembered the sirens before I left home and the chaos that was transit but living in a big city you don’t want to think the worst. I continued to my exam.
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Violence against women comes in all shapes and forms. Some beyond your imagination but then there’s incel or unicel. A pop-cultural group that believes that social structures such as feminism is the reason they don’t have sex. Or simply, the selfishness and evil of women.Entitled
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Incel is not simply a lack of self confidence or pity. This behavior is a reflection of the larger systemic patriarchal structures, ideologies and practices embedded in our communities. This is more than the regular masculine entitlement we see which is bad. It feeds off hatred.
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Incidents like this force you to start asking the important questions pertaining female agency and masculine entitlement? Power relations in social lives and their link to ideologies of norm. Is this a mental illness or a reflection of patriarchal structures? Role of tradition...
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and religion? How does the dominant masculine centered interpretation of religious texts feed into ideologies like this? Why are young men drawn to these internet communities? Why are authorities hesitant to address these acts as terrorism?
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How does the public realm shape the discussion about this attack and similar ones? Would it have immediately been labeled a terrorist violence against women if it was in private? Thinking of the discussion surrounding this tire me. I need a mental health day off male violence.
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