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The main reason I read this site is that you guys are the only ones smart enough to take on Steyn.
Here’s what he says about us feminists,
In my opinion, Steyn is the new Lépine.
He would have us murder millions of women around the world so he can have some more eye candy. And as usual he uses false information about the Muslim world to do it. Love your piece on honor killing, btw.
Oh, and this is the best part of the interview, in my opinion,
I would argue he still doesn’t have any skills. Any 12 year old can write, what matters is if you actually know what you are writing about.
Devin pointed out this post to me, which I think illustrates the non-partisan nature of the issue,
Considering that Lepine killed himself, how can anyone assume what his motives were? Maybe he was mentally ill?
To me this massacre is a reminder that women are vulnerable to the rage of mentally-ill psychopaths, and that men have a responsibility to protect them.
We have some indication of his motives from letters that he left from before his death.
And to say that men have a responsibility is to invoke the same kind of paternalistic mentality that gives rise to these problems in the first place.
Society has a responsibility to protect them, and the education system is a good place to start. Most modern sociopaths do not receive adequate socialization in the public education system, which would make them more accepting of others and better integrated into society.
As noted above, Mark Steyn is probably the perfect example of that.
What’s this got to do with Mark Steyn? Why does a ‘High-School dropout’ unnerve so many of you?
I say “men” because given that the general population is not permitted to carry weapons to places like a polytechnic university, the only means of protecting these women at the time would have been by means of hand-to-hand combat. In general, men would be more physically able to disarm such an individual.
Another example: let’s say it’s 3AM, and you’re downtown. You see a man physically assaulting a woman, and trying to pull her into a car. There’s no one else around besides you. If you’re a man, I’d opine that one of your options is to physically intervene to stop the assault. At that point, “society” isn’t around to stop the individual, as a man, you are “society” at that point. If you’re a woman, I wouldn’t suggest that you intervene in that situation in a physical manner, because your chances of success are unlikely (in general), unless you’ve been trained in some form of fighting skill. There is a difference between men and women, in the obligation to protect. For example, if tomorrow, Canada were to be attacked militarily, and there was a military draft instituted, I would assume that the draft would be for males only. I can’t see the government instituting the draft for females to go into combat. That’s obvious. Let’s not pretend that there is no physical difference.
For me it’s just that he’s a knucklehead that doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and poses risk of making tensions in the world worse by perpetuating false stereotypes.
The poster above seems to take issue with his positions on feminism.
Any social worker will tell you the solution to these kind of problems start early, well before an incident takes place. This type of socialization, which often occurs in the school system, is undermined by the far-right as “liberal fascism.”
Canada is not an armed nation (thank goodness). If you encounter someone with a gun who is shooting, you better run too. By then it’s already too late.
ZZ, as a man, I would hope that in the situation whereby a gunman is systematically gunning down women, that I wouldn’t run- that’s my point. I would hope that I would risk my life in order to take some measure to disarm, distract, or injure the individual so as to prevent the massacre.
During the Virginia Tech massacre, a brave professor lost his life because he closed his classroom door on the gunman, and with his strength, prevented the gunman from opening the door to enter the classrom. The gunman fired through the door, killing the professor, but in the process, the gunman never did enter that classroom. The actions of the professor save a classroom full of lives. That professor to me, represents a real man who lived up to his role of a man in society.
And a woman like myself couldn’t have closed the door in the same way?
Save your machismo bravery for someone else. We don’t need another hero to “protect” us.
Again, at that point it’s already too late. A male professor’s death is just as tragic as the female students.
No, ZZ. In general, women aren’t as physically strong as men. The gumnan, being a male, in general would be able to push through a door being held by a woman.