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[woekitten]

A thing I was thinking of (oh no! Run

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[whatifoundthere]

I am sort of resentful of the way that the Ecole Polytechnique shootings shaped the discourse about violence against women in this country, because people find it so easy to say "well THAT guy was CRAZY, non-crazy people OBVIOUSLY don't hurt women, isn't it a shame that that crazy guy got a gun and killed women with it", etc., which is a disingenuous and frankly disgusting way to derail a conversation about how rape culture and patriarchy are structurally creating situations, over and over and over and over again, where people die, as you say, specifically because they're women. Domestic violence, violence against sex workers, violence against indigenous women, and so on, dwarfs the effect of the Lepine shooting every goddamn week, but WOW ISN'T IT A SHAME ABOUT THAT CRAZY GUY WITH THE GUN, AMIRITE

[woekitten]

I know. It's stupid of me to be apologetic. The audience I wrote for tends to be defensive. Reflex, action, I suppose!