I don’t have any amazing hot takes on the fact that the man responsible for yesterday’s tragedy in Toronto is allegedly a self-identified incel Elliot Rodger superfan. I’m mostly just sad and tired.
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Feminists have been writing about the online radicalization of misogynists for years. A lot of people have dismissed and ridiculed what we’ve said. But make no mistake: misogyny kills, both on a grand scale like this and on a much smaller, more personal scale.
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Unsurprisingly, the people clamouring yesterday to tailor this attack to fit their islamiphobic agenda are either silent today or else calling the information coming out a “government conspiracy”
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Imagine if people cared as much about gender-based violence as they cared about propping up their own racist ideologies
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I’m already seeing the narrative shift to saying Alek Minassian was “mentally unstable.” But the systematic online misogynistic indoctrination of young men has nothing to do with mental illness & everything to do with a culture that doesn’t view women as people.
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We don't know for certain whether or not he is mentally ill. Professionals will be checking in to this. But just because there is a sick 'incel' culture does not mean that mental health wasn't also a factor. Maybe better access to MH services could have prevented this.
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