This is the end of a good thread on gun control, but it’s also an important point in itself. I was just thinking how amazing it is that women are so non-violent toward men as a group... Women certainly have motive. But it doesn’t happen. We turn the anger on ourselves instead.
And it’s not bc women are saints or non-violent, though we are certainly less violent... I mean, plenty of women are violent to children. But it’s notable that there’s simply no tradition at all of abstract misandrist shootings etc, while misogynist ones litter the landscape.
One side effect of this is that misogynist violence, and the maleness of mass killings, is made invisible, normal, not worth comment, just part of the landscape. Instead of saying “these shooters are all men,” people find other differences to distinguish them.
