On 6th December 1989, a man called Marc Lépine walked into a mechanical engineering class at Montreal’s École Polytechnique with a semi-automatic rifle. He separated the men from the women and then instructed the men to leave. He declared that he was ‘fighting feminism’ and opened fire on the nine women who remained. He killed six of them.
Yes. I could check back at JL's reports from 2021 and 2022. Many have made eerily similar comments here and on the likely motivations, for years now. Every element of what these men say is exaggerated, flipped, twisted, mutated, fetishised, appropriated and as they are fundamentally deluded. I wonder how many others had that same sinking feeling as this anniversary approached. The comparisons they make are always erroneous. Unfortunately I know what I will find. It's exactly the same playbook, the same claims, the same self-identified 'careers' these delusional, narcissist and activist men have. And the same platforms they are gifted. Year after year. Despite all the endlessly growing piles of evidence. Well, I thought I have to check as I thought I was going mad and my memory was suspect but there is no point. No, I'm not mad, this really is happening, my perception is accurate, they really are invited to repeatedly insult us like this and their false victimisation fetish is indulged and encouraged. Plus ça change. Hard to find the words :-(
Thank you JL for reminding us to think of those women and their lives and loss, to know their faces, their stories, their names and not letting these men steal their light again.
Thanks Graham from Trish Wood, your friend in Canada. I was a working journalist on that terrible day and I remember well the shared grief of the women and the horror of our male colleagues. Sadly, the CBC -- where I was working is the biggest pusher of trans ideology and likely cheered on this further assault on women.
Thank you, Trish. I wrote this piece and am grateful for your kind words. I can't imagine how heart-breaking it must have been for you to have covered that story. A terrible tragedy.
As we get near to the end of the year JL please accept my thanks for all the work you do. It needs to be documented however depressing it is for all of us.
Trish, as another Canadian woman I well remember this massacre on December 6th, 1989. I kept rechecking because, first, these mass shootings just didn't happen in Canada and second because of the horrendous circumstances of the female victims being targeted. Lately, I feel revictimized when men are invited to speak at these events to commemorate these 14 women who were murdered for the simple fact of being born female.
Graham, I can't thank you enough for bringing your international spotlight on Canada and the erasure of women here.
I never knew about this massacre.. how awful! And how much more awful that men pretending to be women are asked to speak about this, and keep shifting it to the danger of being trans. While not one trans person has been murdered in Canada. In the last few months, it’s all about them. They don’t give a crap about women.
One TIM was murdered in Toronto in 2019 and everyone from the mayor to MSM made it into a huge incident. His queer partner was convicted of the murder, but no one mentions that.
Time and again we pour over the reality and the stats and we find they are the safest group of men. Men who miraculously claim the opposite, despite it being obvious, proven and documented and they simultaneously demonise and increase the risk to the actual victims they attempt to deny out of existence. It reeks the lot of it and makes me feel physically sick.
Think of the level of narcissism in this group, the outlandish behaviour, the clothes and makeup that scream "LOOK AT ME", the exaggerated mannerisms and demands, the constant search for the brightest spotlight, the selfies and constant postings on any social media, their demands to be noticed while erasing the women they claim to be. I'm beginning to believe that this isn't about dysphoria but about their emotional necessity to stand out at all costs, to be the centre of their small universe, to not disappear. It's their own form of immortality.
Yes - this is always about boundaries. And their demands. Those must be met or others will suffer. They must always be at the centre of attention. They could get that by excelling fairly and justly, but that's hard work and takes commitment so they spot where they can get any advantage and go on the attack. It's as simple and as complex as that. Dysphoria is such a broad term that can cover so much and needs much more detail to establish why and what if anything needs to be responded to. We all live with some levels of dysphoria - this is where clinical, medical and medicalised terms being used so sloppily to justify their actions has led us. It's a get-out-of-jail-free card to excuse any appalling action. Two such vague terms, concepts and 'essences' like 'gender' and 'dysphoria'. Whenever they are faced with a boundary or a situation they don't like or that doesn't centre them, this causes such intense 'dysphoria' that to assuage that they must destroy whatever it is stopping them. Even to the extent of convincing entire governmental administrations and corporations that a man is his declaration of what he terms 'a woman' because he has the fetish that he is this thing he created, and all women and other men must capitulate to that dogma. Submit to their ever-changing edicts or be punished, expelled, deplatformed, the lot. Then set the crowd on them, to harass them until they wither under the onslaught. Then crow about how 'fair' and 'just' and 'right' that is.
As soon as anyone, an individual or society puts a personal, informal, official, legal, literal, private, public, metaphorical, emotional, physical, bodily, social, safety or cultural, whatever, type of boundary in place, let alone a well-defined and defended (patrolled) one, they feel this insane need to break it, to challenge it, to mock it, and ultimately to destroy it. Once on the other side they need to find another. They will never stop. It's the relentless compulsion to serve their own needs despite and often because that is at the expense of others. Physics means nothing, chemistry means nothing, biology means nothing, women's and children's rights mean nothing. Reality means nothing. They will take any advantage, use any gap, any weakness, will take any opportunity to get their own way. Then more and more.
This is very useful to many unremarkable, boring, unhappy and not particularly nice men. This is how they get to stand out, as you say. Their 15 minutes of fame but they never want their time to be up and will not share or listen to others. It's insatiable and they have been taught and encouraged to never be satisfied. They have been taught that this is their 'right' and poorly drafted laws now confirm 'that'. Look how many standing at the sidelines as this unfolds are making money, power and prestige off the back of it. And they love our revulsion, our confusion, our anger, our weariness as it's a response.
This is such an important point. Exactly, and I don't blame people for not knowing - there are events that are instantly recognisable by one name, say Heysel or Zeebrugge. Or Sutcliffe. Or Columbine. Dutroux. Bhopal. I have a dim awareness of some events purely from their names on the radio, or news headlines, switching off or on of sets and the looks of horror on the faces of the adults around me. Like it was in the air that month or year. I wish Kemi had raised it in the session in Westminster the other day. Look at serial killers of women, look at the perpetuating myths and reasons men do it, aren't caught or remain hidden, or kill again, despite being known or in systems.
I have studied what news and mass casualty events hit public consciousness and how some remain in the collective cultural memory and even for generations not yet born (where were you when you heard Elvis/Diana died/the Twin Towers etc). How some laws are introduced and when. Some forms of harm and death are viewed as more acceptable than others - there's a field of research in safety on the public acceptability of things. Think outrage and news cycles on numbers and manner of death - sudden or collective and 'accident'. Look at plane crashes versus other more cumulative measures of serious injury or fatality like 'normal' road collisions. How bad, uninformed, or misled we are over assessing or comprehending risk and our individual and collective behaviour. Compare public health messages and how they are communicated to us about hazards. Wine gives you cancer! Wine prevents cancer! Who gets blamed for what. Who is at fault?
I have tried to talk to a few people about it - people who often pride themselves on being aware and cosmopolitan, you know, a cut above. Even Francophiles in the UK who would have been adults at the time. And been met with disinterest or only a passing comment. How some things are accepted. I was unaware as I was a child when it happened and until I was an adult and studied somewhere where there was a small, relatively unobtrusive plaque to commemorate another mass loss of life. I discussed that with some students who were on their study years abroad here in the UK. You know the things you can pick up sitting chatting to people. I had previously visited a friend at a Canadian University and we all sat in a bar one night and we discussed a few cultural touch points that bring together nations, generations and those born in the same places or with similar life experiences together. Sometimes pop songs or youth culture, accents, TV or food. Quite often I have got the wrong end of the stick with another meaning of a word, or someone else has, to horror or amusement and you learn and form a bond or not across languages, generations and geography. I have been dumped in a foreign city and told, make friends, despite not knowing much of the local language.
To use such a tragedy that caused such a national debate (or not) as a vehicle to push trans ideology reveals the intentions and total lack of morals or conscience of anyone connected with these men.
It’s time for Canadian women (& women worldwide) to agitate for an actual woman, a feminist even, to be given the opportunity to commemorate these murdered - assassinated - women’s tragic deaths on their next anniversary. We have a whole year to conduct this campaign; and to make it a feature of the 16 days of activism in 2024 to memorialise these women who never experienced their future lives because they were killed for being women. Maybe invite someone with a global reach to make a splash, someone like Reem Alsalem, UN SRVAWG? I can imagine other women possible candidates. Why must we endure the appropriation of this role by someone with no sympathy for the victims themselves or empathy for females in general? Who dared to ask Preston, or Johnstone or Thom to speak on such an occasion and how is opprobrium not heaped on their heads?
I very much feel for you and the pain being close to this horrific killing must have caused you. Histrionics notwithstanding, I feel the decision to make men part of this, and focus specifically on a man, is a form of assault. The men facilitating this assault are never going to stop or change. They are dedicated misogynists and what they represent and do speaks loudly to other misogynists, the ones who have no obvious investment in gender bollocks. Bit it's not relevant, these are men who don't like women and will put so much effort into fucking them over. That's all that matters, whatever guise it comes on. We need to be as dedicated and strategic as they are.
I just can’t get my head around the level of narcissistic , egotistical delusion that these men think is normal. As for the people cheering them on…. there are no words.
Once again, the question arises: what sort of man would put himself front-and-centre of an event like that, knowing how grossly-offensive it is?
The most charitable reading is that they're in a cult, and cults do horrendous things in the name of their "loving' ideology. And while I've no doubt that's the case for some of them , others are clearly just disturbed, porn-sick and hate women. They've latched onto the one ideology that's socially-acceptable and for them it's a license to be upfront about their contempt.
I agree with you completely, but these men wouldn't be there if handmaidens didn't invite them. There's plenty of blame to go around and they are all culpable.
It really worries me that these females are so thick. Thick as the proverbial mince, or ground beef, as our North American cousins call it. To my mind, their abuse of these dead women is even worse than the men's. The men do it for reasons that we can all see through, but the women? How low and self abasing can you get? Stupid idiots and collaborators. Loathsome.
To me, this just may be the most important post on The Glinner Update. Ever. All that is wrong with 'gender' ideology is contained in the 'inclusion' of men-pretending-to-be women into the remembrance services of these murdered women. It's sickening to witness. I remember that horrible day vividly, and the huge argument across Canada on whether or not it was an actual crime against women. It went on for weeks. Women were actually separated from the men and shot. But so deep was the cultural blindness to the violence against women, and so ingrained and profound was the cultural refusal to acknowledge the depth of woman-hatred -- Canadians, for the most part, refused to ‘believe’ that the Montreal Massacre was a misogynistic crime.
Now here we are again. That same blindness, refusal, cowardice, call it whatever you want — that inability to look into the darkness of woman-hatred is front and centre again -- in the guise of ‘gender’. A disturbed envious man took those young women’s lives years ago, and today, disturbed envious men are allowed to obliterate the meaning of the memorial services. Larping men, who take women’s ‘lives’, want to eradicate the existential meaning of 'woman', and by doing so, endanger women and utterly trivialize female lives.
‘Gender’ ideology is an ongoing mass crime against women and children, but still the argument goes on, and the refusal to look into the heart of darkness is still rampant.
There must be a reason why I, a reasonably well-informed older lady, have never heard of this. It must be the most played-down massacre in the last 50 years.
The faux narrative of violence against TIM takes precedence over the actual massacre of 14 women in our government press and commemorative releases, our MSM and other institutional remembrances.
I find it deeply frustrating that after years of advocating for women's rights and equality, I'm now expected to unquestionably accept trans women as women, and if I don't, I'm vilified as a TERF. As a lesbian who spent years in the closet, my goal was never to demand exclusive rights; I simply wanted the freedom to love whomever I chose, another woman. I never sought to exclude anyone based on their identity.
It's disheartening to witness the current state of our society and humanity, where women are pressured to conform or face isolation. Thank you for addressing this issue in your writing; it has motivated me to become a paying member in support of these important discussions.
This is beyond disgusting.. it’s obscene , insulting and infuriating to any woman! Why are men allowed to take away everything from women, everything! why are they allowed to speak on this? They are not women, they never will be, but their goals seems to be too erase all women they are greedy and disgusting as can be.
It never ceased to amaze me that this movement continues to show us what they are ,ie narcissistic MEN who hate women and try their best to erase us from society ,depriving us of our very NAME ,while at the same time hijacking the very real traumas that women have suffered at the hands of men for Millennia ,and claiming them as their own !! So even although they're hiding in plain sight they continue to get away with it. WHY ??? As for the handmaids and delusional female victims who support this ,I have no words !! Thanks ,JL ,for your sterling work in exposing this dangerous MEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT!! 👏👍❤️X
That’s Tranada for you! They allow themselves the luxury of this sort of extreme stupidity because they live nextdoor to a more powerful nation, same as Scotland and New Zealand.
The article says he was invited to speak at the event! So equal blame has to be with the misogynists running the event. It makes me boil with rage that feminist groups I grew up with in the 80’s and 90’s are now under fire from the trans male rights groups and their useful idiots.
Its sickening the way these deluded fools think they they have a say in this debate when they display slogans such as 'punch terfs" and violently disrupt women's events. Really they have more in common with the shooter.
Exactly! A man who posts pictures with guns saying shoot Terfs, speaking at an event supposedly in memory of the murdered women, seems more like a threat than a memorial. It’s disgusting, one of the worst of their appropriations.
And I don’t think media in the UK have ever covered this massacre in any significant way.
How twisted is Social Incoherence Ideology (including Male Chauvinist Neologism Abusers ) ? As twisted as a corkscrew, and as tastelessly hypocritical as a Tartuffe with an invitation to minister to even richer still hypocrites and grifting godsters. It's mind boggling how repulsive this manages to be while it tries to stand up acting holy.
They have no shame, no shame at all. Did their mothers at no time ask them to speak the truth to shame the devil? Were they never required to be honest about their behaviour? I try to get inside the heads of these men to understand what makes them say and do the deluded stuff that consumes them. It is beyond me and I guess any sane person. The self obsession and total conviction they are all important is truly disturbing.
Because getting groped in a bar for wearing a sexy red dress is the moral equivalent of not coming home alive.
The fucking neck on these people!
Because “Being tans is sacred, “you know! Anyone else .. not so much!
I think the being groped in a bar was a made up AGP fantasy.
Yes. I could check back at JL's reports from 2021 and 2022. Many have made eerily similar comments here and on the likely motivations, for years now. Every element of what these men say is exaggerated, flipped, twisted, mutated, fetishised, appropriated and as they are fundamentally deluded. I wonder how many others had that same sinking feeling as this anniversary approached. The comparisons they make are always erroneous. Unfortunately I know what I will find. It's exactly the same playbook, the same claims, the same self-identified 'careers' these delusional, narcissist and activist men have. And the same platforms they are gifted. Year after year. Despite all the endlessly growing piles of evidence. Well, I thought I have to check as I thought I was going mad and my memory was suspect but there is no point. No, I'm not mad, this really is happening, my perception is accurate, they really are invited to repeatedly insult us like this and their false victimisation fetish is indulged and encouraged. Plus ça change. Hard to find the words :-(
Thank you JL for reminding us to think of those women and their lives and loss, to know their faces, their stories, their names and not letting these men steal their light again.
Thanks Graham from Trish Wood, your friend in Canada. I was a working journalist on that terrible day and I remember well the shared grief of the women and the horror of our male colleagues. Sadly, the CBC -- where I was working is the biggest pusher of trans ideology and likely cheered on this further assault on women.
Thank you, Trish. I wrote this piece and am grateful for your kind words. I can't imagine how heart-breaking it must have been for you to have covered that story. A terrible tragedy.
As we get near to the end of the year JL please accept my thanks for all the work you do. It needs to be documented however depressing it is for all of us.
Thank you so much, Marion x
Hear hear, well said 👏
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Trish, as another Canadian woman I well remember this massacre on December 6th, 1989. I kept rechecking because, first, these mass shootings just didn't happen in Canada and second because of the horrendous circumstances of the female victims being targeted. Lately, I feel revictimized when men are invited to speak at these events to commemorate these 14 women who were murdered for the simple fact of being born female.
Graham, I can't thank you enough for bringing your international spotlight on Canada and the erasure of women here.
I never knew about this massacre.. how awful! And how much more awful that men pretending to be women are asked to speak about this, and keep shifting it to the danger of being trans. While not one trans person has been murdered in Canada. In the last few months, it’s all about them. They don’t give a crap about women.
One TIM was murdered in Toronto in 2019 and everyone from the mayor to MSM made it into a huge incident. His queer partner was convicted of the murder, but no one mentions that.
Time and again we pour over the reality and the stats and we find they are the safest group of men. Men who miraculously claim the opposite, despite it being obvious, proven and documented and they simultaneously demonise and increase the risk to the actual victims they attempt to deny out of existence. It reeks the lot of it and makes me feel physically sick.
Think of the level of narcissism in this group, the outlandish behaviour, the clothes and makeup that scream "LOOK AT ME", the exaggerated mannerisms and demands, the constant search for the brightest spotlight, the selfies and constant postings on any social media, their demands to be noticed while erasing the women they claim to be. I'm beginning to believe that this isn't about dysphoria but about their emotional necessity to stand out at all costs, to be the centre of their small universe, to not disappear. It's their own form of immortality.
Yes - this is always about boundaries. And their demands. Those must be met or others will suffer. They must always be at the centre of attention. They could get that by excelling fairly and justly, but that's hard work and takes commitment so they spot where they can get any advantage and go on the attack. It's as simple and as complex as that. Dysphoria is such a broad term that can cover so much and needs much more detail to establish why and what if anything needs to be responded to. We all live with some levels of dysphoria - this is where clinical, medical and medicalised terms being used so sloppily to justify their actions has led us. It's a get-out-of-jail-free card to excuse any appalling action. Two such vague terms, concepts and 'essences' like 'gender' and 'dysphoria'. Whenever they are faced with a boundary or a situation they don't like or that doesn't centre them, this causes such intense 'dysphoria' that to assuage that they must destroy whatever it is stopping them. Even to the extent of convincing entire governmental administrations and corporations that a man is his declaration of what he terms 'a woman' because he has the fetish that he is this thing he created, and all women and other men must capitulate to that dogma. Submit to their ever-changing edicts or be punished, expelled, deplatformed, the lot. Then set the crowd on them, to harass them until they wither under the onslaught. Then crow about how 'fair' and 'just' and 'right' that is.
As soon as anyone, an individual or society puts a personal, informal, official, legal, literal, private, public, metaphorical, emotional, physical, bodily, social, safety or cultural, whatever, type of boundary in place, let alone a well-defined and defended (patrolled) one, they feel this insane need to break it, to challenge it, to mock it, and ultimately to destroy it. Once on the other side they need to find another. They will never stop. It's the relentless compulsion to serve their own needs despite and often because that is at the expense of others. Physics means nothing, chemistry means nothing, biology means nothing, women's and children's rights mean nothing. Reality means nothing. They will take any advantage, use any gap, any weakness, will take any opportunity to get their own way. Then more and more.
This is very useful to many unremarkable, boring, unhappy and not particularly nice men. This is how they get to stand out, as you say. Their 15 minutes of fame but they never want their time to be up and will not share or listen to others. It's insatiable and they have been taught and encouraged to never be satisfied. They have been taught that this is their 'right' and poorly drafted laws now confirm 'that'. Look how many standing at the sidelines as this unfolds are making money, power and prestige off the back of it. And they love our revulsion, our confusion, our anger, our weariness as it's a response.
I only became aware of it a couple of years ago. I don't know how much coverage it got in the UK at the time, but it doesn't seem to have been enough.
This is such an important point. Exactly, and I don't blame people for not knowing - there are events that are instantly recognisable by one name, say Heysel or Zeebrugge. Or Sutcliffe. Or Columbine. Dutroux. Bhopal. I have a dim awareness of some events purely from their names on the radio, or news headlines, switching off or on of sets and the looks of horror on the faces of the adults around me. Like it was in the air that month or year. I wish Kemi had raised it in the session in Westminster the other day. Look at serial killers of women, look at the perpetuating myths and reasons men do it, aren't caught or remain hidden, or kill again, despite being known or in systems.
I have studied what news and mass casualty events hit public consciousness and how some remain in the collective cultural memory and even for generations not yet born (where were you when you heard Elvis/Diana died/the Twin Towers etc). How some laws are introduced and when. Some forms of harm and death are viewed as more acceptable than others - there's a field of research in safety on the public acceptability of things. Think outrage and news cycles on numbers and manner of death - sudden or collective and 'accident'. Look at plane crashes versus other more cumulative measures of serious injury or fatality like 'normal' road collisions. How bad, uninformed, or misled we are over assessing or comprehending risk and our individual and collective behaviour. Compare public health messages and how they are communicated to us about hazards. Wine gives you cancer! Wine prevents cancer! Who gets blamed for what. Who is at fault?
I have tried to talk to a few people about it - people who often pride themselves on being aware and cosmopolitan, you know, a cut above. Even Francophiles in the UK who would have been adults at the time. And been met with disinterest or only a passing comment. How some things are accepted. I was unaware as I was a child when it happened and until I was an adult and studied somewhere where there was a small, relatively unobtrusive plaque to commemorate another mass loss of life. I discussed that with some students who were on their study years abroad here in the UK. You know the things you can pick up sitting chatting to people. I had previously visited a friend at a Canadian University and we all sat in a bar one night and we discussed a few cultural touch points that bring together nations, generations and those born in the same places or with similar life experiences together. Sometimes pop songs or youth culture, accents, TV or food. Quite often I have got the wrong end of the stick with another meaning of a word, or someone else has, to horror or amusement and you learn and form a bond or not across languages, generations and geography. I have been dumped in a foreign city and told, make friends, despite not knowing much of the local language.
To use such a tragedy that caused such a national debate (or not) as a vehicle to push trans ideology reveals the intentions and total lack of morals or conscience of anyone connected with these men.
It’s time for Canadian women (& women worldwide) to agitate for an actual woman, a feminist even, to be given the opportunity to commemorate these murdered - assassinated - women’s tragic deaths on their next anniversary. We have a whole year to conduct this campaign; and to make it a feature of the 16 days of activism in 2024 to memorialise these women who never experienced their future lives because they were killed for being women. Maybe invite someone with a global reach to make a splash, someone like Reem Alsalem, UN SRVAWG? I can imagine other women possible candidates. Why must we endure the appropriation of this role by someone with no sympathy for the victims themselves or empathy for females in general? Who dared to ask Preston, or Johnstone or Thom to speak on such an occasion and how is opprobrium not heaped on their heads?
Go to it, @CAWSBAR @WDICanada @DeclarationOn !
I very much feel for you and the pain being close to this horrific killing must have caused you. Histrionics notwithstanding, I feel the decision to make men part of this, and focus specifically on a man, is a form of assault. The men facilitating this assault are never going to stop or change. They are dedicated misogynists and what they represent and do speaks loudly to other misogynists, the ones who have no obvious investment in gender bollocks. Bit it's not relevant, these are men who don't like women and will put so much effort into fucking them over. That's all that matters, whatever guise it comes on. We need to be as dedicated and strategic as they are.
I just can’t get my head around the level of narcissistic , egotistical delusion that these men think is normal. As for the people cheering them on…. there are no words.
I’m absolutely fuming ! These men are vile! Narcissistic sociopaths!
I feel the same. Words fail me. This is all just disgusting. The absolute misogyny of it all.
Once again, the question arises: what sort of man would put himself front-and-centre of an event like that, knowing how grossly-offensive it is?
The most charitable reading is that they're in a cult, and cults do horrendous things in the name of their "loving' ideology. And while I've no doubt that's the case for some of them , others are clearly just disturbed, porn-sick and hate women. They've latched onto the one ideology that's socially-acceptable and for them it's a license to be upfront about their contempt.
I agree with you completely, but these men wouldn't be there if handmaidens didn't invite them. There's plenty of blame to go around and they are all culpable.
It really worries me that these females are so thick. Thick as the proverbial mince, or ground beef, as our North American cousins call it. To my mind, their abuse of these dead women is even worse than the men's. The men do it for reasons that we can all see through, but the women? How low and self abasing can you get? Stupid idiots and collaborators. Loathsome.
Totally agree
Once again, Ewen is succinct and erudite, and absolutely 'nails' 'gender' ideology to the cross of reason.
To me, this just may be the most important post on The Glinner Update. Ever. All that is wrong with 'gender' ideology is contained in the 'inclusion' of men-pretending-to-be women into the remembrance services of these murdered women. It's sickening to witness. I remember that horrible day vividly, and the huge argument across Canada on whether or not it was an actual crime against women. It went on for weeks. Women were actually separated from the men and shot. But so deep was the cultural blindness to the violence against women, and so ingrained and profound was the cultural refusal to acknowledge the depth of woman-hatred -- Canadians, for the most part, refused to ‘believe’ that the Montreal Massacre was a misogynistic crime.
Now here we are again. That same blindness, refusal, cowardice, call it whatever you want — that inability to look into the darkness of woman-hatred is front and centre again -- in the guise of ‘gender’. A disturbed envious man took those young women’s lives years ago, and today, disturbed envious men are allowed to obliterate the meaning of the memorial services. Larping men, who take women’s ‘lives’, want to eradicate the existential meaning of 'woman', and by doing so, endanger women and utterly trivialize female lives.
‘Gender’ ideology is an ongoing mass crime against women and children, but still the argument goes on, and the refusal to look into the heart of darkness is still rampant.
There must be a reason why I, a reasonably well-informed older lady, have never heard of this. It must be the most played-down massacre in the last 50 years.
The faux narrative of violence against TIM takes precedence over the actual massacre of 14 women in our government press and commemorative releases, our MSM and other institutional remembrances.
Thank you for this beautiful rant. It says it all. These men are delivering the ultimate insult to women, trashing feminism just like the killer did.
I find it deeply frustrating that after years of advocating for women's rights and equality, I'm now expected to unquestionably accept trans women as women, and if I don't, I'm vilified as a TERF. As a lesbian who spent years in the closet, my goal was never to demand exclusive rights; I simply wanted the freedom to love whomever I chose, another woman. I never sought to exclude anyone based on their identity.
It's disheartening to witness the current state of our society and humanity, where women are pressured to conform or face isolation. Thank you for addressing this issue in your writing; it has motivated me to become a paying member in support of these important discussions.
Welcome Gabriella. I have never known quite such a time or an issue that brings us together all over the world. You are not alone.
Thanks very much JL. At this time of year gender identity extremists should send each other get out of male free cards.
That's brilliant... I might nick it! 😉
:-) the season is a potentially rich vein ...
♫Jangle balls, jangle balls
Men's rights all the way ♫
This is beyond disgusting.. it’s obscene , insulting and infuriating to any woman! Why are men allowed to take away everything from women, everything! why are they allowed to speak on this? They are not women, they never will be, but their goals seems to be too erase all women they are greedy and disgusting as can be.
It never ceased to amaze me that this movement continues to show us what they are ,ie narcissistic MEN who hate women and try their best to erase us from society ,depriving us of our very NAME ,while at the same time hijacking the very real traumas that women have suffered at the hands of men for Millennia ,and claiming them as their own !! So even although they're hiding in plain sight they continue to get away with it. WHY ??? As for the handmaids and delusional female victims who support this ,I have no words !! Thanks ,JL ,for your sterling work in exposing this dangerous MEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT!! 👏👍❤️X
They utterly fucking repulse and disgust me, these Troons.
Just when you think they can scrape no lower, they do.
That’s Tranada for you! They allow themselves the luxury of this sort of extreme stupidity because they live nextdoor to a more powerful nation, same as Scotland and New Zealand.
The article says he was invited to speak at the event! So equal blame has to be with the misogynists running the event. It makes me boil with rage that feminist groups I grew up with in the 80’s and 90’s are now under fire from the trans male rights groups and their useful idiots.
I agree. Those who are responsible for this need to be named and shamed. Who the f*ck are they?
Thank God I don't live in Canada! That is all I have to say. Now, I'm off to throw up.
Its sickening the way these deluded fools think they they have a say in this debate when they display slogans such as 'punch terfs" and violently disrupt women's events. Really they have more in common with the shooter.
Exactly! A man who posts pictures with guns saying shoot Terfs, speaking at an event supposedly in memory of the murdered women, seems more like a threat than a memorial. It’s disgusting, one of the worst of their appropriations.
And I don’t think media in the UK have ever covered this massacre in any significant way.
How twisted is Social Incoherence Ideology (including Male Chauvinist Neologism Abusers ) ? As twisted as a corkscrew, and as tastelessly hypocritical as a Tartuffe with an invitation to minister to even richer still hypocrites and grifting godsters. It's mind boggling how repulsive this manages to be while it tries to stand up acting holy.
They have no shame, no shame at all. Did their mothers at no time ask them to speak the truth to shame the devil? Were they never required to be honest about their behaviour? I try to get inside the heads of these men to understand what makes them say and do the deluded stuff that consumes them. It is beyond me and I guess any sane person. The self obsession and total conviction they are all important is truly disturbing.
They are narcissistic sociopaths.
That figures! The audacity is mind blowing.