{"id":106734,"date":"2025-02-24T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/20th-anniversary-of-the-massacre-at-lecole-polytechnique-in-montreal\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T08:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T08:26:00","slug":"20th-anniversary-of-the-massacre-at-lecole-polytechnique-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=106734","title":{"rendered":"20th anniversary of the massacre at L&#8217;Ecole Polytechnique in\u00a0Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ann Bartow at Feminist Law Profs\u00a0reminds us that today is the\u00a0twentieth anniversary of the murders of women engineering students at\u00a0l\u2019\u00c9cole Polytechnique in Montreal on December 6, 1989.\u00a0 Because of this terrible event, today is also the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women day in Canada, which has been commemorated since 1991.\u00a0 In case you\u2019re unacquainted with this terrible massacre, here\u2019s a CBC link with a video clip of a report and a description of the murders\u00a0(emphases Historiann\u2019s):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A gunman confronts 60 engineering students during their class at l\u2019\u00c9cole Polytechnique in Montreal on Dec. 6, 1989. <strong>He separates the men from the women and tells the men to leave the classroom, threatening them with his .22-calibre rifle.<\/strong> The enraged man begins a shooting rampage that spreads to three floors and several classrooms, jumping from desk to desk while female students cower below. <strong>He roams the corridors yelling, \u201cI want women.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Before opening fire in the engineering class, he calls the women \u201cune gang de f\u00e9ministes\u201d and says \u201cJ\u2019ha\u00efs les f\u00e9ministes [I hate feminists].\u201d One person pleads that they are not feminists, just students taking engineering. <\/strong>But the gunman doesn\u2019t listen. He shoots the women and then kills himself. Parents of the Polytechnique students wait outside the school crying and wonder if their daughters are among the 14 dead tonight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I was in my last year of college, preparing for final exams, when this news broke 20 years ago.\u00a0 It really harshed our\u00a0\u201cpost-feminist\u201d buzz in the late 80s to learn that merely studying engineering was considered a sufficiently provocative act that it courted assassination, and that\u00a0reassuring\u00a0men that we weren\u2019t feminists wouldn\u2019t necessarily save our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie M-B at The Clutter Museum has an interesting post up on campus violence, inspired by the release of the report on the Virginia Tech shootings, which revealed disturbing delays in notifying faculty, staff, and students outside of the central administration building.\u00a0 She also discusses the troubling reluctance of campuses to release accurate information about sexual assaults.\u00a0 Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>I still maintain that the absence of relationships with women should be considered a major warning sign\u00a0that a man is capable of mass\u00a0homocide or femicide.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u00a0such an obvious\u00a0commonality of all of these North American massacres\u2013from Montreal, to\u00a0V-Tech, to\u00a0Fort Hood.\u00a0 But, because misogyny is normalized, and the degradation of\u00a0women is\u00a0a substantial part of our entertainment and political culture, guys like this get a pass until they start\u00a0shooting.\u00a0 We mourn the victims, but we don\u2019t take meaningful steps to prevent the creation of other victims.\u00a0 There\u2019s no political\u00a0advantage in reducing even mentally ill and socially maladjusted\u00a0men\u2019s Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Bartow at Feminist Law Profs\u00a0reminds us that today is the\u00a0twentieth anniversary of the murders of women engineering students at\u00a0l\u2019\u00c9cole Polytechnique in Montreal on December 6, 1989.\u00a0 Because of this terrible event, today is also the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women day in Canada, which has been commemorated since 1991.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12032],"tags":[5595,3108,48661,48659,35251,48660],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-106734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","tag-20th","tag-anniversary","tag-inmontreal","tag-lecole","tag-massacre","tag-polytechnique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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