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Related: About this forumMen’s Rights Redditor remembers the victims of Marc Lepine
Mens Rights Redditor remembers the victims of Marc Lepine by complaining were all supposed to cry about how hard it is to be female.
A vigil to honor the victims of the massacre at the Ecole Polytechnique.
Today is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada, an annual event to honor the victims of mass murderer Marc Lépine, who gunned down fourteen women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989. Lepine, driven by a poisonous misogynist ideology, specifically targeted women, yelling I hate feminists before opening fire on one classroom of female students.
Reading over his suicide-note-cum-manifesto today, I was struck again by how, well, familiar it all sounded. While only a few MRAs have explicitly celebrated Lepine as a hero, his views on women and feminism would not be out of place on most Mens Rights forums. Heres Lepine, in his own words. (Ive broken the wall of text into shorter paragraphs.)
[T]he feminists always have a talent for enraging me.
They want to retain the advantages of being women (e.g. cheaper insurance, extended maternity leave preceded by a preventive leave) while trying to grab those of the men. They are so opportunistic that they neglect to profit from the knowledge accumulated by men throughout the ages.
Thus, the other day, people were honoring the Canadian men and women who fought at the frontlines during the world wars. How does this sit with the fact that women were not authorized to go to the frontline at the time??? Will we hear of Caesars female legions and female galley slaves who of course took up 50 per cent of historys ranks, although they never existed?
A vigil to honor the victims of the massacre at the Ecole Polytechnique.
Today is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada, an annual event to honor the victims of mass murderer Marc Lépine, who gunned down fourteen women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989. Lepine, driven by a poisonous misogynist ideology, specifically targeted women, yelling I hate feminists before opening fire on one classroom of female students.
Reading over his suicide-note-cum-manifesto today, I was struck again by how, well, familiar it all sounded. While only a few MRAs have explicitly celebrated Lepine as a hero, his views on women and feminism would not be out of place on most Mens Rights forums. Heres Lepine, in his own words. (Ive broken the wall of text into shorter paragraphs.)
[T]he feminists always have a talent for enraging me.
They want to retain the advantages of being women (e.g. cheaper insurance, extended maternity leave preceded by a preventive leave) while trying to grab those of the men. They are so opportunistic that they neglect to profit from the knowledge accumulated by men throughout the ages.
Thus, the other day, people were honoring the Canadian men and women who fought at the frontlines during the world wars. How does this sit with the fact that women were not authorized to go to the frontline at the time??? Will we hear of Caesars female legions and female galley slaves who of course took up 50 per cent of historys ranks, although they never existed?
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Men’s Rights Redditor remembers the victims of Marc Lepine (Original Post)
ismnotwasm
Dec 2013
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xulamaude
(847 posts)1. But what about all the men who fought in the warz?!11!
Seriously, who maintains a war culture anyway? It certainly isn't the frikkin' Girl Scouts...
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)2. "We’re all supposed to cry about how hard it is to be female."
Talk about (deliberately?) missing the point...
redqueen
(115,103 posts)3. Yep.