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From: geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu (Gordon E. Banks)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Montreal
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.222405.18139@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 22:24:05 GMT
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Sadly, the women who exclude all men because the want them to
'take responsibility for male violence' are subject to the same
delusion as men who will classify a woman as fit or not for
a certain role because of her sex.  Is the tendancy towards
violence inherent in all males?  Perhaps it is.  But if it
is, we should be taking responsibility for restraining it in
ourselves and be rightly censured if we fail to do so. To
see this incident as having any global significance is surely
to be fooling ourselves.  This Montreal loony is hardly unique.  
Paranoids often see themselves as being
persecuted by certain groups: blacks, policemen, communists,
physicists, and now women.  It may serve some people's politics
to see this as some societal sickness, but Lapine is right there
in the groove with a lot of other crazies.  Why feminists?  Why
not?  They are visible, often take a strong position, and he
saw them as taking a position against him.  When he snapped,
he turned his gun on his imagined persecutors: women.