Amazing the kind of damage that one lone misogynistic madman can do in so short a time! I don't know why .... but suddenly my gaydar has gone on high alert after reading that the drive-by shooter had stabbed to death three young men, their bodies were found in his apartment, before going on the drive-by shooting rampage. The three guys couldn't have been killed in one go, or could they? Did they all die at the same time, same day? Was the misogynist a homosexual but a self-hating one? Did he blame women for his own sexual orientation? Below is a small part from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff notification:
From LocalNixle: .....In addition to the seven fatalities, there were 13 people wounded. Four of those were apparently injured by the suspect’s vehicle, eight sustained gunshot wounds and one sustained a minor injury from an unknown origin. Of the seven people still hospitalized, one is in serious condition. Investigators from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office along with allied agencies are working together to process and investigate this complex mass murder case which includes 12 crime scenes in ten different locations. So far investigators have been able to determine that Rodger murdered three victims at his apartment located in the 6500 block of Seville Road. The male victims were all found dead, apparently from multiple stab wounds..........
He's a perfect example of the kind of idiots found in plenty all over the North American campuses. To top it all, not only is Martin Singer dumber than dumb, the York University's admin backed him all the way. That's the state of Administrations running our educational institutions these days. Money from Muslim palms must be magical ... a $1000 donation to university coffers must be multiplying faster and in more abundance than the wine at the wedding feast in Cana.
Emma Teitel writing at MacleansMag: ....Martin Singer, York’s dean of arts, insisted that Grayson grant the student’s request for a woman-less semester because his quiet abstention from the class’s group work wouldn’t openly discriminate against his female peers. In other words, what York’s women didn’t know wouldn’t hurt them, so why not make the accommodation? Today, everybody in the country knows, and we aren’t hurt. We’re mad. From campus feminists to the likes of Conservative Justice Minister Peter MacKay, there is hardly a soul left in Canada who has not thrown shade at York’s administration—ever willing, apparently, to tolerate intolerance in the name of political correctness. More maddening than its sexist kowtowing is the school’s hearty appetite for fictitious religious dogma. What’s gone practically unnoticed in this spirited debate about accommodation is the very thing that renders it moot. The religious proscription on which Grayson’s student based his accommodation request (thou shalt not be seen in public with women) may boil your blood, or make you want to renounce God almighty, but chances are it doesn’t exist. The boring truth is that neither Orthodox Judaism nor Islam, nor any noteworthy religion on the planet, forbids its adherents from meeting members of the opposite sex in public...........
Michele Mandel writing at QMIAgency: .....Enough is enough. It's all well and good to be a welcoming, multicultural society that bends over backwards to respect everyone's faith and belief. But there are certain inalienable, bedrock truths that go along with living here that cannot and should not be bent to "accommodate" different value systems. Gender equality is one of them. And so it's shocking that a secular, publicly funded school of higher learning such as York University would insist that a professor agree to a male student's request to opt out of a group project because he doesn't want to interact with his female classmates due to religious reasons. To his credit, sociology professor J. Paul Grayson has defied the decision by dean Martin Singer, and, with the backing of his department, told the student he must participate with women in his focus group assignment. "We have to make a value choice," he told QMI Agency. "What's more important -- the rights of females who make up 54% of the population, or those of individuals with religious notions incompatible with egalitarianism?"............
1989 was several years before I immigrated to Canada but I heard so much about this horrible massacre that it has made an impact on me just as much as it must have made on the people who were here at that time. Marc Lepine the killer was the son of an Algerian Muslim father and a Canadian Christian woman. Was it the largely misogynistic nature of his father's faith that led to his intense hatred of women? In the dhimmihood of a politically correct Canada, you are not likely to find a truthful nor a satisfactory answer.
The 14 young women were: Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klueznick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie Saint-Arsenault, Annie Turcotte.
Julie Bindel writing at the GuardianUK: ...Mélissa Blais, a lecturer and doctoral student at the University of Quebec, is the country's leading scholar on the topic of the massacre and its anti-feminist context. She interviewed a number of women for her research who were active feminists in 1989 and found that many felt responsible for what happened at Montreal. "Afterwards, they chose to be silent to avoid further attack. "When I became a feminist, around the year 2000, I was puzzled to see that some were still reluctant to talk in political terms about the attack. It seemed as though the most efficient way to dismiss the feminist explanation was to reduce everything to the psychology of a single mad man." Pelletier agrees that Lépine's act was highly political and believes he knew exactly what he was doing that day. "I always felt those women died in my name. Some of them probably weren't even feminist," she says, "they just had the nerve to believe they were peers, not subordinates of their male classmates..... Supriya Swivedi writing at NationalPost: ...Remembering the Montreal massacre is a vigil worth holding.... .......Conversely, in the Polytechnique shooting, all of the shooting fatalities were women, Marc Lépine chose his victims for the sole reason that they were women studying engineering, which in his eyes was a field reserved for men, and his political message was that he was fighting feminism. Before he opened fire, Lépine shouted: “You’re all a bunch of feminists, and I hate feminists!” I’m not sure how he could have made his motivation any clearer. I suppose he could have included it in a manifesto and a suicide note…although, he did that as well. I do not doubt that Lépine may have suffered from mental illness. As Kay points out, Lépine had an abusive childhood and a history of anti-social behaviour. What I fail to understand is how that should have any bearing on how we pay homage to the victims. Should Columbine stop remembering its tragedy because the shooters were likely insane? Dawson College? Virginia Tech? Of course not..........
It will take a long time to forget the obscene allegations and opinions that spewed from his mouth against a good woman. The upside of the incident is that he has shown a whole lot of dhimmis out there how intolerant, spiteful and terribly hateful Muslims can be when they target a woman for criticism. The more people becoming aware of Muslim men's behaviour towards women, the better informed they become about islam's poisonous ideology. Oft times, it's the muzzies themselves throwing sunlight on themselves.
update: Oops! Forgot that the scum is not a Muslim but a Christian of Pakistani origins.
Jessica Chasmar writing at WashingtonTimes: .....Just weeks after MSNBC host Martin Bashir issued a foul attack against former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on his show, the outspoken progressive announced he is resigning from the troubled network. “After making an on-air apology, I asked for permission to take some additional time out around the Thanksgiving holiday,” Mr. Bashir said in a statement Wednesday afternoon, Mediaite.com reported. “Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the President of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation. It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.......
If you have high hopes that with the onset of a new govt. in Egypt and with the Muslim Brotherhood sent packing and licking their wounds, Egypt is going to be a shining example of a Muslim nation .... think again. The islamic culture of misogyny and the hatred for people of other faiths is deeply embedded in the Egyptian male.
Mariam Kirollos writing at Jadaliyya: .....Last September, sixteen-year-old Eman Mustafa was walking with a friend in the village of Arab Al Kablatin Assiut, when a man groped her breasts. She turned to face him and spat in his face. He shot her dead with an automatic rifle as a price for her bravery. Mustafa’s death was an eye-opener call to those who claim that sexual violence is an urban issue. Thanks to human rights organizations and activist groups, Eman's killer was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 2013. Violence against women across historical, cultural, and national divides continues to be a socially accepted practice, if not a norm. In the realms of both policy and social awareness, we have collectively failed to tackle this issue with serious rigor. As a result, we seem to be witnessing an increase in sexual violence and brutality. In Egypt, sexual harassment is widespread and touches the lives of the majority of women whether on the streets, in public transportation, or at the work place, the super market, or political protests. It is true that sexual harassment still lacks a unified definition, but it is not difficult to identify unwelcome verbal or physical sexual violation. Many Egyptians, women included, are unclear as to what constitutes sexual harassment. Others sadly, do not think it is a problem. One thing is clear though, and that is the actions of the various governments of the last thirty years have been limited to statements of regret and unmet promises.....
....Even though, for example, Eman Mustafa was a veiled villager, one key argument in the victim-blaming that is salient in our everyday narratives is the common and vulgar perception that sexual harassment occurs when women dress “provocatively.” In fact, the only thing that Egyptians who face sexual harassment have in common is that over ninety-nine percent of them are females......... .....The use of sexual violence as a political tool against women in protests dates back to 25 May 2005, also known as Black Wednesday. That day female protesters were targeted and sexually assaulted by plain-clothed policemen and NDP thugs in front of the press syndicate while protesting the constitutional amendments paving the way for Gamal Mubarak’s inheritance of the presidency. The Public Prosecutor failed to pursue the case when it was reported to his office. However the following year, four female journalists decided to file a complaint to the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights with the help of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. After almost eight years of investigations, the commission issued the verdict blaming the Egyptian government for this incident. It called for financial compensation for the victims as well as for the prosecution to reopen investigations, which was a positive step for Egypt’s anti-sexual violence movement. After the fall of Hosni Mubarak on 11 February 2011, successive governments have been complicit in sexual violence against female protesters. We can begin this trajectory with the “virginity tests” that the military conducted on seven female protesters on 9 March 2011. We can continue this trajectory until today. While I prefer sticking to the name sit al banat (the best of all girls), I am somehow thankful that the female protester who was savagely beaten by the military forces in December 2011 was clad in an abaya (robe). Her anonymity sheds light on the probable use of various forms of violence against any female protester, whether it is sponsored by the state, or covered by its complicity..............
They included this interesting aside: “Coincidentally we both hail from Alaska — where women are treated as equals — so perhaps our threshold for this kind of behavior is less than here in the Lower 48.”
As an Alaskan woman, I completely agree. Women up here do not tolerate the sexist stereotyping and behavior.
Up here, I’m constantly around commercial fishermen who curse like sailors, oil field workers with hardcore blue collar work ethics, tattooed-up soldiers serving on our military bases, long-haul truck drivers, motorheads, hunters and sport fishermen; and yet I don’t know anyone who talks about women the way these misogynists on TV do with their degrading comments, which includes comments mocking those with special needs.
I grew up hunting, fishing, playing sports, plowing snow, and chopping wood just like the guys. My parents raised my sisters and me to never consider gender an unequal element in anything. (In fact, today is my Dad’s birthday, and I want to give him a shout out because as a science teacher and track coach, he treated all of his students and athletes equally with respect and encouragement.) My daughters have participated on football, hockey, and wrestling teams just like the guys. We even dress like the guys at times (or they, like us) in warm camo hoodies and Carharts. It’s accepted up here because the environment is rugged and real, and our Alaskan elements are a great equalizer.
Women and men are equals in every way in the Last Frontier, and real men are not threatened by strong women. Real men don’t insult women with gross sexist comments meant to demean and objectify them.
These misogynists wouldn’t know how real men behave. I cannot imagine them working on my commercial fishing skiff in Bristol Bay, or driving our trucks to haul gear out to a remote cabin, or fueling up the float plane, or even having a tinge of grease under their fingernails which symbolizes the hard work needed to fuel the nation’s economy. And yet these are all things average Alaskan women do everyday. If these misogynists said one of their disgusting comments up here in person to an “Alaskan chick,” they would have to replace their veneered teeth.
I personally do not seek an apology from these narrow-minded men. With a full family and productive “to-do” list everyday, I just don’t have time for them. But I do feel sorry for them and for their obvious need to compensate for something that’s missing in their own lives, which compels them to belittle others in order to feel big. And I feel sorry for our culture for having to listen to them. America deserves better. I applaud Kirsten and Penny for taking a stand when too many feminists don’t speak up when the attacks are directed at their conservative sisters. And unfortunately too many men, like our president, will only defend certain women, not all women.
Thanks to YouTube user shellymicABfor the vid. Good job. Only true feminists can recognize other true feminists.
UPDATE: Credit for the vid goes first to Kelsey from BarbaricThoughtsand then to ShellyD (see comment).
