7 Dec 2016
In Canada there is an annual ritual in which feminists gather in alleged memorium of the women who were killed in the so-called "Montreal Massacre." Somewhat like a gathering of Remembrance Day, except the women remembered were murdered in cold blood, and what is being memorialized are not 'our glorious dead,' but the alleged misogyny of men, period. My hometown newspaper ran a story this time about a school principal who would get his high-school aged charges together for this occasion and have a talk with them about the thing lurking deep within each of them that wants to brutalize women.
For years, the perpetrator of the crime was called "Marc Lepine," which was indeed his French name. His Arabic name was Gamil Gharbi, and although he was an atheist, he father was, apparently, strict Islamic in cultural outlook. The significance of this was not known until the rise of jihadist violence in the West after 9/11. So, the canard that all men have within them this misogynist devil had more than a decade to take hold, and gave time for the name "Marc Lepine" to get planted rather than "Gamil Gharbi." The possibility that the Montreal Massacre was rooted in Islamic misogyny rather than male misogyny as such is given no thought by anyone involved in the memorialization. To do so would create too many conflicts of progressivist victimhood to sort out, and it is far more convenient to blame men in general rather than to be more specific in this case.
The latest occasion for this somber and pious humbug that is rooted in tragedy got me on my soap box as follows:
Few things in Canada are more absurd and asinine than the
pagan rituals and chest-thumping moralisms that surround the “Montreal
Massacre.”
At the Ecole Polytechnique, Gamil Gharbi, the Canadian born
son of an Algerian immigrant, entered a lecture hall armed with a Ruger Mini-14
and ordered the 50 men present to leave the room. Recalling their
lectures about fish and bicycles, the men dutifully obeyed and left nine women
to their fates. Gharbi killed six and wounded three.
He then moved throughout the building and killed eight more
women, and wounding four men and ten women. He then killed himself, as he
planned.
Gharbi claimed that feminism had ruined his life, and this
act was his revenge for it. Of course, we learned all the wrong lessons.
Gharbi, or Lepine as he is popularly known, was an obvious
head case. He blamed feminism for his problems, and so of course this
makes all men in some way accountable for his crime. There is a Marc
Lepine lurking in every man, to believe the feminists who certainly know how to
capitalize on tragedy to advance their cause and to engage in self-pity.
What is asinine is that there are some men, like principle
Timothy McBride, who buy this crap about all men having a small Marc Lepine
lurking within them and who presume to lecture his male charges about it.
This raises a question: did McBride introspectively discovered a Marc Lepine
lurking within himself? If not, why would he presume to warn other men
about the Marc Lepine that lurks within them?
The theory that Marc Lepine lurks deep in every man or even
most men is an offensive myth perpetrated by self-pitying feminists who express
an exaggerated grief in pagan-like rituals. Feminists are exploiting this
crime. They’re all about fish and bicycles and equality until the fit
hits the shan, and then it’s “women and children first!”
Another mis-learned lesson was gun control. Gharbi
killed with a Mini-14; but because that kind of rifle is popular with
Aboriginal hunters, the government left it alone and made AR-15s restricted
instead. That was its political gesture. Now, a concealed
carrier in the classroom could have stopped Gharbi cold in his tracks, and that
is why concealed carry is permitted in every one of the fifty States of
America. In Canada, instead of licensing conceal carry we went
overboard in the other direction and Canadians are as defenseless against crime
as they have ever been.
Marc Lepine was a head case. He is in no way
representative of men in general. His crime is being exploited for social
and political gain by people who were not his victims.
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