{"id":217378,"date":"2014-04-12T12:21:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T12:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/12\/coelasquid-underunderstood-nowyoukno-now\/"},"modified":"2018-09-22T02:26:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T02:26:17","slug":"coelasquid-underunderstood-nowyoukno-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/12\/coelasquid-underunderstood-nowyoukno-now\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-217378 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/12\/coelasquid-underunderstood-nowyoukno-now\/attachment\/217380\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3ab02A9MZ1rkt29io1_500-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3ab02A9MZ1rkt29io1_500-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3ab02A9MZ1rkt29io1_500-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3ab02A9MZ1rkt29io1_500-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3ab02A9MZ1rkt29io1_500.png 500w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/coelasquid.tumblr.com\/post\/81700799590\/underunderstood-nowyoukno-now-you-know\" target=\"_blank\">coelasquid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/underunderstood.tumblr.com\/post\/81355487948\/nowyoukno-now-you-know-source-this-is-an\" target=\"_blank\">underunderstood<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nowyoukno.com\/post\/81266017551\/now-you-know-source\" target=\"_blank\">nowyoukno<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nowyoukno.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Now You Know<\/strong><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110604052652\/http:\/\/archives.cbc.ca\/society\/crime_justice\/topics\/398-2235\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an important event in history, especially Canadian and feminist history. So I\u2019m going to tell you more about it.<\/p>\n<p>1) The shooter had been rejected from Ecole Polytechnique prior to the shooting. He blamed this on these female students, claiming that they were feminists who ruined his life.<\/p>\n<p>2) In the first classroom he entered, he demanded the men leave before shooting at the women. No man attempted to stop him as they left. Take that as you will. (Later on, several men did get injured trying to stop him in the hallways.)<\/p>\n<p>3) In his suicide letter, he believed that feminists were attempting to be more powerful than men, and were trying to take men\u2019s rights away.<br \/>4) Feminists were actually blamed by some for the massacre. The line of logic was \u201cif feminists didn\u2019t make women\u2019s rights an issue, Levine wouldn\u2019t have wanted to kill feminists!\u201d Victim blaming at its finest.<\/p>\n<p>5) The mainstream news media often did not publicize the outrage from women\u2019s groups, and often preferred those who took a calm approach. Ironic, that.<\/p>\n<p>6) Despite him literally having a hit list of feminist icons in his final letter, several newscasters questioned whether or not the shooting was a sexist act, some even denying the idea outright.<\/p>\n<p>8) Many memorials for the victims have been created, and rightly so; however, some prominent ones were erected in poor neighbourhoods where many Native women were killed every day in the same time period as the shooting (see: Marker of Change, Vancouver) (see: Missing Women, Vancouver). Basically, white feminism happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The entire event was nothing short of a tragedy, and I recommend that everyone read up on it and the resulting aftermath. It\u2019s\u2026 interesting to see how the media tried to turn it into a random act of psychopathy instead of what it was (we know better now, luckily). The reactions (memorials, etc) to the deaths of these 14 White, middle class women as compared to the deaths of 60+ Native, lower class women are also \u201cinteresting\u201d to compare. (By interesting, I mean infuriating.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s also an important event because after it happened Canada was like \u201coh shit better expedite that whole gun control thing\u201d <em>and then did<\/em>. I feel like this situation is so completely ignored when Americans talk about gun control, like the examples the American left always trot out are like \u201clook at how well gun control works in Europe\u201d and opponents say \u201cwell gun culture is completely different here you can\u2019t just take them all away all of the sudden and expect that to work\u201d. But Canada has a lot of guns AND regulates ownership to successfully cut down on gun crime, violence, and accidents. It was a pretty clear line of \u201cthis is a problem that requires legislation\u201d and the necessary change was made. People grumbled a lot, but the shift happened.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>coelasquid: underunderstood: nowyoukno: Now You Know (Source) This is an important event in history, especially Canadian and feminist history. So I\u2019m going to tell you more about it. 1) The shooter had been rejected from Ecole Polytechnique prior to the shooting. He blamed this on these female students, claiming that they were feminists who ruined &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/12\/coelasquid-underunderstood-nowyoukno-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[208,261,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217382,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217378\/revisions\/217382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}