(4) There are so many examples that it's difficult to focus on just a few. Canada had a similar attack in 1989. Marc Lepine shot 28 women at Montreal University, killing 14. He was angry at "feminists" who got admitted into the school that denied him.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/03/montreal-massacre-canadas-feminists-remember …
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(5) In 1984, Abdelkrim Belachheb, 29, opened fire in a Dallas nightclub, killing 6 people after his dance partner rejected his advances.https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/30/us/6-die-in-dallas-club-as-enraged-man-fires-wildly.html …
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(6) Charles Carl Roberts appears to have intended to rape and murder the young girls he held hostage in the Amish schoolhouse shooting in 2006. He eventually shot 10, killing 5, and then himself. Notes he left indicate he'd been molesting girls for years. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/03/amish.shooting/index.html …
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(7) Let's take a step outside mass shootings and just look at violence against women. After all, it's one of the common denominators among most mass shooters. Many have convictions for domestic violence.http://time.com/5016731/link-between-domestic-violence-mass-shooters/ …
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(8) The WHO views violence against women as a public health crises. Nearly one third of all women globally report they have been victims and 38% of women murdered worldwide have been killed by intimate partners. In the United States in 2011, that number rose to 53%.pic.twitter.com/xgEnNSJOVf
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(9) If we look at the span of violence, from harassment to rape to domestic violence & murder, one thing is clear. Men feel entitled to commit gender-based violence. It seems to me that is a result of misogyny & toxic masculinty. It's not incel culture. It's OUR culture.
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(10) Yes, social media platforms enable these men to organize in the same way hate groups do. They accelerate the process of radicalization. When free speech crosses into hate speech & threats of violence, it needs to be condemned. These groups are toxichttp://www.wired.co.uk/article/toronto-attack-incel-alek-minassian …
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(11) However, articles struggling to understand members of incel culture to help these poor frustatred young men are at best dangerous and at worst, enabling. Many, many women are not attractive to men. We don't feel entitled to kill people because of it.https://www.thedailybeast.com/sympathy-for-the-incel …
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(12) This is old-fashioned misogyny. The same kind that enables genital mutilation in Africa or uses rape as a weapon of war. Let's not pretend incels are special & try to understand their cutsy nicknames. They're part of OUR culture of toxic masculinity.https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/25/17279294/toronto-massacre-minassian-incels-internet-misogyny …
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(13) So what can we do? Focus on supporting feminists doing the hard work of breaking gender norms for men & women. Support gun reform to get weapons out of the hands of angry men. Don't waste one more minute figuring out why men feel entitled to kill women. You know why.
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(14) This #SunndayMorning thread on Incel culture courtesy of the suggestion by @JimKennedy1 .
Come back next week and we'll do this again. Thanks for your support!
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Wow - this is awesome! I went from reading a NY Times article to having a Sunday morning reading list and educating myself.
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