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Woman-Hating and the LA Fitness Massacre: Hate Crimes Against Women - George Sodini kills three Women - By Louise Marie Roth
Huffington Post
Woman-Hating and the LA Fitness Massacre: Hate Crimes Against Women
by Louise Marie Roth
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona.
August 7, 2009
Woman-Hating and the LA Fitness Massacre: Hate Crimes Against Women
Some excerpts :
I was a university student living in Montreal during the Montreal Massacre on December 6, 1989. In a classroom at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Universite de Montreal, Marc Lepine separated the men from the women and, claiming that he was "fighting feminism," shot all 9 women in the class and killed 6 of them. Specifically targeting women, he managed to shoot 28 people and kill 14 women before committing suicide.
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Like Lepine, Sodini's hatred of women was based on his sense of masculine entitlement. Sodini may have had less to say about what he believed that women took away from him economically, although he did comment in his on-line blog that the lack of a wife/sexual partner was a career disadvantage. But Sodini's gripes were more about what he believed women owed him sexually and did not deliver. The suicide note (yet to be released) that was in his gym bag apparently complained about how he had never spent a weekend with a woman, vacationed with a woman, or lived with a woman, and his sexual experiences were limited. His on-line blog documented his growing rage with women for rejecting him. In it he said, "I actually look good. I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne -- yet 30 million women rejected me -- over an 18 or 25-year period. That is how I see it. Thirty million is my rough guesstimate of how many desirable single women there are." How does this lead to a hate crime against women? One thing that allowed him to do such a thing to individual women who never did anything to him personally was through his objectification of women. On the blog, he described the women he saw at the gym: "Many of the young girls here look so beautiful as to not be human, very edible."
He also clearly believed that women were giving sexual access to men that he viewed as less entitled than himself, such as black men. "Black dudes have thier [sic] choice of best white ----. You do the math, there are enough young white so all the brothers can each have one for 3 or 6 months or so." While it is likely true that Sodini, like Lepine, was a disturbed man, it is clear that the channeling of his rage against women as a group makes it a hate crime against women.
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Woman-Hating and the LA Fitness Massacre: Hate Crimes Against Women - George Sodini kills three Women - By Louise Marie Roth
Huffington Post
Woman-Hating and the LA Fitness Massacre: Hate Crimes Against Women
by Louise Marie Roth
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona.
August 7, 2009
Woman-Hating and the LA Fitness Massacre: Hate Crimes Against Women
Some excerpts :
I was a university student living in Montreal during the Montreal Massacre on December 6, 1989. In a classroom at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Universite de Montreal, Marc Lepine separated the men from the women and, claiming that he was "fighting feminism," shot all 9 women in the class and killed 6 of them. Specifically targeting women, he managed to shoot 28 people and kill 14 women before committing suicide.
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Like Lepine, Sodini's hatred of women was based on his sense of masculine entitlement. Sodini may have had less to say about what he believed that women took away from him economically, although he did comment in his on-line blog that the lack of a wife/sexual partner was a career disadvantage. But Sodini's gripes were more about what he believed women owed him sexually and did not deliver. The suicide note (yet to be released) that was in his gym bag apparently complained about how he had never spent a weekend with a woman, vacationed with a woman, or lived with a woman, and his sexual experiences were limited. His on-line blog documented his growing rage with women for rejecting him. In it he said, "I actually look good. I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne -- yet 30 million women rejected me -- over an 18 or 25-year period. That is how I see it. Thirty million is my rough guesstimate of how many desirable single women there are." How does this lead to a hate crime against women? One thing that allowed him to do such a thing to individual women who never did anything to him personally was through his objectification of women. On the blog, he described the women he saw at the gym: "Many of the young girls here look so beautiful as to not be human, very edible."
He also clearly believed that women were giving sexual access to men that he viewed as less entitled than himself, such as black men. "Black dudes have thier [sic] choice of best white ----. You do the math, there are enough young white so all the brothers can each have one for 3 or 6 months or so." While it is likely true that Sodini, like Lepine, was a disturbed man, it is clear that the channeling of his rage against women as a group makes it a hate crime against women.
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