I have only the vaguest memories of this myself, and that must be second hand. On December 6th 1989, I was probably in the jungle not getting much news. Anyway, Sciencewoman reminds us:
On December 6, 1989, an armed gunman named Marc Lepine entered an engineering classroom at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec. He demanded all 48 men in the class leave the room, lined up all 9 women against a wall...
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On December 6, 1989, an armed gunman named Marc Lepine entered an engineering classroom at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec. He demanded all 48 men in the class leave the room, lined up all 9 women against a wall, and, shouting "You are all a bunch of [expletive] feminists!", proceeded to…
I send this information around every year on December 6 because, while the Montreal Massacre is a big deal still in Canada, fewer people know about it in the States, and we should know about it.
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On December 6, 1989, an armed gunman named Marc Lepine entered an engineering classroom at Ecole…
I have something like ten posts already started and none of them done due to that silly work thing. I don't know how the other people around ScienceBlogs actually get posts up with such frequency.
In the meantime, I had a thought while conversing with Alice Pawley and Suzanne Franks about their…
This post grew out of an exchange with Benjamin Franz on my post This Is The Patriarchy: When Talking To The Master, Speak In A Civil Tone. I felt the exchange itself was worth promoting to a post, with some additional commentary, especially since we are getting so close to the anniversary date of…
War on Terror, anyone? Oh wait, these were just women;
never mind.
Looking at it from an evolutionary perspective - this guy should have been hung, drawn, quartered, and impaled (I just love the rough justice of old england and transsylvania) for eliminating those girls from the gene pool.
Not to put a too fine point too it:
"Gamil's father had contempt for women and believed that they were only intended to serve men"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_L%C3%A9pine
which is an idea strongly based in religion, catholizism as well as islam. I think that might explain a few things about this arsehole.
"Marc Lépine was buried in the Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in Montreal, a few blocks from where he committed the massacre."
I hope there are enough men with the proper attitude in montreal to meet for a "piss down" and a formal desecration on this buggers grave.
Too bad we do not have those nice three posters outside towns anymore were that type of "man" could be buried and forgotten.