On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered in an anti-fem­in­ist attack at the École Poly­tech­nique de Montréal

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On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered in an anti-fem­in­ist attack at the École Poly­tech­nique de Montréal in what is still the second dead­li­est mass shoot­ing in Canada. Another 10 women and four men were injured in the shoot­ing.

Shooter Marc Lépine, armed with a leg­ally-obtained Ruger Mini-14, semi-auto­matic rifle and a hunt­ing knife, entered a mech­an­ical engin­eer­ing class at the École Poly­tech­nique and ordered women to one side of the classroom while also instruct­ing the men to leave.

He claimed to be fight­ing fem­in­ism, shoot­ing nine women, killing six, in the first room before mov­ing through cor­ridors, the cafet­eria and another classroom all while tar­get­ing more women. The attack las­ted just under 20 minutes, killing eight more women before the 25-year-old turned the gun on him­self.

Lépine blamed uniden­ti­fied women for sev­eral fail­ures in his life and said he would kill some women in revenge.

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/medicine-hat-news/20251204/281857239850230

The Montreal Massacre is one of the 16 Days of Action Against Violence Against Women https://www.womensgrid.org.uk/?p=28070

I wasn't arguing with you Ereshkigalangcleg, my post happened to appear where it did.

The motives of the killer were probably complex, blatant woman-hating being the obvious one.

I'd see him as an early example of the men's rights campaigners who see feminism as an attack on the proper, natural order of men-in-charge. Elements of incel as well probably.

He targeted women who had stepped very far outside traditional feminine roles by studying engineering, and he specifically named feminists as his target.

Ah ok thanks Marie. Yes, I imagine it was multi factorial.

I think that's it.

Prior to 1970s Women's Liberation, even allowing for the Suffragettes, men still thought of themselves as superior.

So without saying it is what we know call incel, it has the same background of men hating women who dont know their place.

so feminism was the enemy for encouraging women to aspire to have the same rights and career opportunities as men already had.

And worse still women aspiring to a job that was very much seen as a traditional male job.

But with all these lone shooters, including the ones male politicians say are terrorists (women are too inferior to warrant being attacked as an act of terrorism) have also some form of mental distress or whatever name you want to give it, that drives them to actually kill.

So although they articulate some arguement or political grievance, the reality is about feeling their male status is being challenged or demonstrating that as man they can kill women who displease them.

And still, society as a whole wont discuss this. That there is a problem with men.

There has been for a few millennia. But beyond that, what's worrying is the direction of travel in the last ten years or so.

Absolutely @moto748e

It was, I remember it being from the news at the time.

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