#35 years since polytechnique

[donttellmeyourewoke]

Marc LÉPINE, born Gamil Rodrigue LIASS GHARBI, was an Arab and Muslim man.

Born in October 26, 1964, he is a Canadian mass murderer from Montreal, Quebec. On December 6, 1989 (35 years ago tomorrow) , he murdered fourteen (14) women, and wounded another ten (10) women and four (4) men in what is known as the École Polytechnique massacre. It took place at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal.

LÉPINE WAS THE SON of French Canadian nurse Monique Lépine and ALGERIAN (i.e. ARAB & MUSLIM) businessman Rachid Gharbi, WHO WAS ABUSIVE TOWARDS AND CONTEMPTUOUS OF WOMEN.

Let me reiterate that:

***LÉPINE WAS THE SON OF ALGERIAN (i.e. ARAB & MUSLIM) businessman RACHID GHARBI, WHO WAS ABUSIVE TOWARDS AND CONTEMPTUOUS OF WOMEN.***

So. Lépine had been raised from birth in a familial climate of hatred towards women. He was a loner, a loser and - incidentally - an InCel, which i think is important. Marc LÉPINE a.k.a Gamil GHARBI WAS NOT THE PRODUCT OF QUÉBEC SOCIETY AT THE TIME, he was the result of having been raised A MUSLIM WHO also DETESTED WOMEN FANATICALLY because of the noxious influence of his abusive, female-hating father.

ONE MAN (out of 3 million Québec males at the time). ONE GUN. ONE NIGHT. ONE CONTEXT.

I PERSONALLY OBJECT TO THE FETISHISIZING AND CONTINUED COMMEMORATION - STILL, THIRTY-FIVE (35!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) YEARS LATER. A MONUMENT IS WARRANTED, A PLACE NAMED AFTER THE POLTECHNQUE MASSACRE IS ALSO FINE, THE COMMEMORATION BY FAMILIES & FRIENDS OF THE VICTIMS IS NORMAL. WHAT ISN'T NORMAL IS THE ELEVATION OF THIS ONE SINGULAR EVENT TO PAINT A PORTRAIT OF ALL MEN AS 1- WOMEN HATERS; 2- MASS MURDERER; 3- LOSERS; 4- LONERS; 5- INCELS; & 6- PROBABLY ALSO INSANE, TO HAVE DONE WHAT HE DID - killing women "BECAUSE THEY WERE FEMINISTS, NOT because THEY WERE WOMEN.

Marc LÉPINE DID WHAT HE DID ***ALSO BECAUSE HE WAS AN ARAB -AND- THE SON OF AN ABUSIVE MUSLIM MAN***.

WHAT THIS MASSACRE IS CALLED IS A "FEMINISTICIDE", NOT A "FEMINICIDE".

AND ***CONJUGAL MURDERS OF WOMEN BY INTIMATE PARTNERS ARE NOT FEMINICIDES EITHER*** - IF THE MURDEROUS MEN HAD BEEN HOMOSEXUALS, THEY WOULD HAVE KILLED THEIR MALE PARTNERS, THEREFORE IT IS CALLED A "HOMICIDE" & ***CONJUGAL MURDERS ARE HOMICIDES ALSO - THE VICTIM SIMPLY HAPPENS TO BE A WOMAN OR GIRL*** - ***THEY WERE CERTAINLY NOT KILLED BECAUSE THEY WERE WOMEN. ONLY Marc LÉPINE'S VICTIMS WERE VICTIMS OF FEMINICIDES, OR RATHER OF FEMINISTICIDEST***

IT'S A FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE OF VIEW.

IT WAS AN ACT OF "DOMESTIC TERRORISM" -AND- OF "ISLAMIST TERRORISM" AS WELL AS A MASSACRE OF WOMEN, BECAUSE THEY WERE FEMINISTS.

& I BELIEVE SYSTEMATICALLY TOUTING (CONJUGAL) MURDERS OF GIRLS OR WOMEN AS "FEMINICIDES" IS WRONG, ABUSIVE & DENIGRATES THE VICTIM STATUS OF THE POLYTECHNIQUE 14 - btw, there were also male victims (4 injured, and a couple that committed suicide as a direct result of December 6th, 2024)...

[lemurchick]

Since it’s been 35 years after the École Polytechnique massacre where shooter targeted female students in anti-feminist attack I’ve decided to watch ‘Polytechnique’ by Denis Villeneuve. And, well, I mean… it’s masterfully done but why…. Why is it focusing so much on male students who did nothing and left the rooms and the building (there were at least 50 male students in the first room).

Especially considering the history around the coverage of the attack and how some men thought and still do that Canadian feminists ‘weaponised’ it more that necessary…. Hmm….

[lillcarrionbird]

35th anniversary of the femicides at Polytechnique: Statement of PolyRemembers (December 5, 2024) Tomorrow, on December 6th, like all Quebecers and Canadians, we will be marking the 35th anniversary of the femicides at Polytechnique. Many of us will be on Mount Royal, where the City of Montreal and the Comité Mémoire are inviting us to pay our respects and honour the memory of our 14 missing daughters, sisters and classmates. At this solemn event, we will be accompanied by many dignitaries, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other members of his government. On this anniversary, we will express our gratitude to the Liberal government which, after years of promises, has finally taken a critical step towards eliminating all assault weapons from circulation, in addition to providing concrete timelines to ban large-capacity magazines, implement a preauthorization process for new firearm models and enact C-21 measures aimed at protecting women and children from gun-related intimate violence. By adopting a second Order in Council banning hundreds of existing assault weapons (and committing to finalizing it in the comings weeks), the government aims to complete the one issued in 2020, which excluded numerous models by virtue of two arbitrary exemptions. In doing so, the Liberal government is demonstrating its commitment to complete the ban and buyback of all assault weapons in Canada – consistent with the wishes of most Canadians. We applaud the list of gun control measures announced today, which demonstrate true political courage to prioritize public safety despite enormous pressures from the gun lobby. These crucial and long-awaited concrete steps to reduce gun violence across Canada honour the memory of the victims of the femicides at Polytechnique as well as countless other Canadians who have lost their lives to gun violence. On December 6th, 2024, we will finally gather with a feeling of relief and a sense accomplishment, knowing that our decades-long campaign and the support of so many partners and Canadians has finally paid off, leading to a comprehensive ban on assault weapons in addition to other concrete changes including a freeze on handgun sales. As we continue to remember the 14 women killed by gun violence in the 1989 Montreal Massacre at Polytechnique, we can now say that their lives and memory have inspired profound and lasting change for greater public safety. We thank Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Public Safety Minister Dominique LeBlanc, Public Services and Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, along with Liberal MPs Rachel Bendayan and Pam Damoff who both worked tirelessly on this issue. We are now counting on them to finish the job before the next election.

[codename-adler]

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, in Canada

Today is December 6. 

1989: 35 years ago, in Montreal, Canada, an armed man entered École Polytechnique and shot 14 women. That man killed 14 women.

Geneviève Bergeron, 21, mechanical engineering student

Annie Turcotte, 20, metallurgic engineering student

Maude Haviernick, 29, metallurgic engineering student

Sonia Pelletier, 28, mechanical engineering student

Hélène Colgan, 23, mechanical engineering student

Anne-Marie Lemay, 22, mechanical engineering student

Nathalie Croteau, 23, mechanical engineering student

Anne-Marie Edward, 21, chemical enginerring student

Barbara Daigneault, 22, mechanical engineering student

Maryse Laganière, 25, financial service employee

Maryse Leclair, 23, metallurgic engineering student

Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, 31, nursing student

Michèle Richard, 21, metallurgic engineering student

Annie St-Arneault, 23, mechanical engineering student

This was an misogynistic act of terrorism. A femicide. They were targeted because they were women in a field mainly occupied by men. They were targeted because they were women. Because they were women. 

Since then, gun control has improved, Polytechnique is now more than ever full of women thriving in engineering. 

But these 14 women are still gone. This won’t bring them back. They were still murdered by a hateful man that hated and hated and hated women. 

I’m 24. I live on that same campus. I’m not studying engineering. I have lived longer than some of these women. I live at the same age of some of these women. And I know I’ll probably be living past the age of some of these women. 

But some women won’t. Many didn’t.

Because the war on women is not over. 

The war on black women, women of color, trans women, indigenous women, jewish women, queer women, uygghur women, latinx women, muslim women, hijabi women, religious women, atheist women, abstinent women, sexually-active women, small women, big women, survivor women, mentally-ill women, neurodivergent women, infant women, teenage women, adult women, old women, women in male-dominated fields, women in female-dominated fields, rich women, poor women, middle class women, women with children, women without children, single women, married women, divorced women, widowed women, women in prostitution, women in prison, disabled women... Women.

Womanhood is a battlefield. 

So thrive. Fight. Study, learn, teach. Work, create, give. 

Be you, my dear sisters. Breathe and don’t let anyone step on your crown. 

May you rest in peace, fallen sisters.