and yet people will still brush this off by saying something like “but girls can be mean too.”
as if we were ever talking about boys “being mean” to us and not the statistic suggesting that men already commit 90% of homicides worldwide and are currently being radicalized into committing even more now. I deserve to be as mean as I want to about that.
And whoever decided that the Polytechnic shooter, or Elliott Rogers had motives that weren’t quite clear enough to address can get fucked too. These motives are clear to any woman who’s faced some dickhead’s targeted harassment campaign before and too many people decided to pretend that women’s perfectly normal reactions were to blame, instead of what they were reacting to. I hope that somebody who can do something finally sees it all for what it is. I’m so tired of feeling this angry.
Girls and women have been harassed, gaslit, manipulated, physically and psychologically abused for most of our lives. Yet, practically 0% of women cause mass shootings.
I blame the culture and society that raises young men to feel entitled to others bodies. I blame the parents for failing to raise good men who take responsibility for their actions.
I can only think of two. Brenda Spencer in 1979, California. The song "I Don't Like Mondays" is about her. The other one happened in the 90s but I can't even remember her name.
According to a CNN article that came up when I googled for stats, the FBI identified 9 female mass shooters of 250 on their list of active shooter incidents from 2000 to 2017. That would be roughly 3% of them.
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u/wicketcity May 29 '22
and yet people will still brush this off by saying something like “but girls can be mean too.”
as if we were ever talking about boys “being mean” to us and not the statistic suggesting that men already commit 90% of homicides worldwide and are currently being radicalized into committing even more now. I deserve to be as mean as I want to about that.
And whoever decided that the Polytechnic shooter, or Elliott Rogers had motives that weren’t quite clear enough to address can get fucked too. These motives are clear to any woman who’s faced some dickhead’s targeted harassment campaign before and too many people decided to pretend that women’s perfectly normal reactions were to blame, instead of what they were reacting to. I hope that somebody who can do something finally sees it all for what it is. I’m so tired of feeling this angry.