Comments on: The Massacre at École Polytechnique http://thecurvature.com/2008/12/06/the-massacre-at-ecole-polytechnique/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:47:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hexy http://thecurvature.com/2008/12/06/the-massacre-at-ecole-polytechnique/#comment-8974 hexy Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:54:13 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2582#comment-8974 Seeing as I'm reading through your blog for the first time and hence catching up on your past entries backwards... it struck me immediately how similar the sentiment in this suicide note (although not the grammar) is to the troll comment posted two entries above. Same anger, same general viewpoint, same hatred of women. Yet this one was from a man who killed fourteen women. And people tell feminists not to take woman-hating comments too seriously. Seeing as I’m reading through your blog for the first time and hence catching up on your past entries backwards… it struck me immediately how similar the sentiment in this suicide note (although not the grammar) is to the troll comment posted two entries above. Same anger, same general viewpoint, same hatred of women. Yet this one was from a man who killed fourteen women.

And people tell feminists not to take woman-hating comments too seriously.

]]> By: Anna http://thecurvature.com/2008/12/06/the-massacre-at-ecole-polytechnique/#comment-8864 Anna Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:31:10 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2582#comment-8864 I can understand intellectually why politics dominated my newspaper today and yesterday, in light of things across Canada, but I'm so wounded to see that a memorial to women dead isn't front page news. I can understand intellectually why politics dominated my newspaper today and yesterday, in light of things across Canada, but I’m so wounded to see that a memorial to women dead isn’t front page news.

]]> By: bastard.logic http://thecurvature.com/2008/12/06/the-massacre-at-ecole-polytechnique/#comment-8863 bastard.logic Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:34:33 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2582#comment-8863 <strong>12.06.89...</strong> by matttbastard Today isn’t about pro or anti coalition rallies, the respective leadership abilities of Stephane Dion vs. Stephen Harper, partisanship, or unelected heads of state. Nor is it about Western alienation, Quebec separatism, parliam... 12.06.89…

by matttbastard
Today isn’t about pro or anti coalition rallies, the respective leadership abilities of Stephane Dion vs. Stephen Harper, partisanship, or unelected heads of state. Nor is it about Western alienation, Quebec separatism, parliam…

]]> By: Cara http://thecurvature.com/2008/12/06/the-massacre-at-ecole-polytechnique/#comment-8858 Cara Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:40:50 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2582#comment-8858 No problem at all, Renee. I just went and cross-posed this to Feministe as well. No problem at all, Renee. I just went and cross-posed this to Feministe as well.

]]> By: Renee http://thecurvature.com/2008/12/06/the-massacre-at-ecole-polytechnique/#comment-8857 Renee Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:44:56 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2582#comment-8857 Thanks so much for writing this up. I was so disheartened that little to no mention about this occurred on the feminists blogs today. Today is essentially a day of mourning for Canadian women. I was 15 when this happened and I will never forget the tears I cried that day. I had just had my feminist awakening and this event made clear in my young mind the need for feminism. Each year on Dec 6 I remember those 14 women and the price that they paid. To this day every year mens groups try to paint Lepin as just some random crazy killer as though violence against women is not a systemic part of our society. It angers me to no end. Lepin is just one large example of the men that daily believe that they exist with the right to rape, murder, abuse and exploit women for personal gain. This is not a simple isolated incident where one man went nuts, no this is a sign of the ways women continue to be vulnerable. Again thank you so much for posting this. In Remembrance of the Montreal 14, Je me souviens. Thanks so much for writing this up. I was so disheartened that little to no mention about this occurred on the feminists blogs today. Today is essentially a day of mourning for Canadian women.
I was 15 when this happened and I will never forget the tears I cried that day. I had just had my feminist awakening and this event made clear in my young mind the need for feminism. Each year on Dec 6 I remember those 14 women and the price that they paid.
To this day every year mens groups try to paint Lepin as just some random crazy killer as though violence against women is not a systemic part of our society. It angers me to no end. Lepin is just one large example of the men that daily believe that they exist with the right to rape, murder, abuse and exploit women for personal gain. This is not a simple isolated incident where one man went nuts, no this is a sign of the ways women continue to be vulnerable.
Again thank you so much for posting this. In Remembrance of the Montreal 14, Je me souviens.

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