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École Polytechnique Massacre 1989

53 replies

Leafstamp · 07/12/2021 20:19

Remembering the young women killed simply for being women.

Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student
Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student
Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department
Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student
Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student
Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student
Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student

OP posts:
ForeverFaithless · 07/12/2021 22:33
Flowers Thanks for saying their names
Agrona · 07/12/2021 22:24

I will think about the women who were murdered rather than any person who will never understand what it is like to be a woman.

It is horrifying that a man believes his anger at women is a reason to murder them.

ArabellaScott · 07/12/2021 22:17
Flowers
PlasticPlantsDontDie · 07/12/2021 22:12

I always think about these women and what they would have become, how some of them might have become big names in engineering and paved the way for other women in STEM.

He got exactly what he wanted.

When men cry misandry and accuse feminists of man-hating, I always refer to this incident. I say “when a woman walks into a classroom, lines up all the men and shoots them, then talk to me about misandry”.

What they must have felt in their last moments, because of that fucking coward.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 07/12/2021 22:06

I simply don't think it got a huge amount of publicity globally at the time. And I can only assume it was because all the victims were women.

This. RIP Thanks

ChristmasPlanning · 07/12/2021 21:58
Thanks

Thank you OP for remembering these women & for highlighting this. I had never heard of this before

WorkingItOutAsIGo · 07/12/2021 21:47

I can’t believe this was so long ago. I was doing my Masters and it seems like only yesterday. RIP all.

GoodieMoomin · 07/12/2021 21:42

Thanks @Leafstamp. It's important that we remember these women

LoveFall · 07/12/2021 21:38

ThanksThanksThanks

PickAChew · 07/12/2021 21:25
Flowers
Clymene · 07/12/2021 21:06

I hadn't heard of this massacre until a few years' ago. I vividly remember the Hungerford Massacre when it happened and was shocked to realise this happened two years after Hungerford.

I simply don't think it got a huge amount of publicity globally at the time. And I can only assume it was because all the victims were women.

OutOfBounds · 07/12/2021 21:04
Flowers

They do indeed deserve a fitting tribute which respects the heinous nature of the crime committed. RIP

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 07/12/2021 21:04
Flowers
SweetGrapes · 07/12/2021 21:01

Flowers Rest in peace!

Sexnotgender · 07/12/2021 21:00

Truly awful. RIP Flowers

Redshoeblueshoe · 07/12/2021 20:59
Flowers
Decorhate · 07/12/2021 20:50

I’d not heard of this before (was living in quite a remote place at the time). So shocking. I was an engineering student not long before this happened.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 07/12/2021 20:41
Flowers
KeyErro · 07/12/2021 20:35
Flowers
BreadInCaptivity · 07/12/2021 20:34

RIP Thanks

They deserve a fitting tribute that respects why they murdered.

Thelnebriati · 07/12/2021 20:34

RIP 💐

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Dozer · 07/12/2021 20:31

Had never heard of this! Will look it up.

Awful.

endofthelinefinally · 07/12/2021 20:28

RIP. What a terrible waste of life.

WaningMoon · 07/12/2021 20:26

Thank you for sharing their names OP.

These women were killed for being women.

The men in the classroom were allowed to leave and the women were slaughtered.

Horrific.

WonderHen · 07/12/2021 20:26

🍻