Or are aimed at women or minorities not providing the requisite perks to the shooter.
Coffee Ogress *gyllyn!* On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Bryce Peake <[email protected]> wrote: > "The fact that this man killed both a male and a female former colleague > strongly indicate that his problem was not gender-driven, that it was > driven by the fact that these former colleagues had complained about him in > the past." > > Why do we always assume that gender is only a motivation in terms of > victim selection? Shooters' misogyny/masculinity (no, they're not always > the same thing), has been central in every one of these manifestos over the > past decade (or two) regardless of whether the direct object of rage is > transgendered, man, or woman. And yes, race, class and sexuality all > *intersect > *with this sense of masculinity, and we need to be taking all three of > these concepts together in thinking about these issues. > > Where I think this does connect to Wikipedia is in this weird debate that > always pops up about suicide mass shootings being somehow gender neutral... > despite the fact that the very very vast majority of these types of public > suicide mass shootings are perpetrated by men, and the manifestos mostly > about their sense of being or not being a man. > > bryce > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:08 AM, JJ Marr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, exactly. It's probably much more likely to be race driven than >> gender driven, if you look at the reasons for his firing. >> I spent most of yesterday NOT looking at the news, making my husband turn >> off the TV when the news came on, and not logging in to any online >> experience where I was likely to run into video related to this. It is >> what I do, as a matter of course, to make it through the day without >> triggering the memories of terror I experienced as a result of being >> involved in a very violent episode in the past. >> >> This has nothing to do with Wikipedia, Wikimedia or the WMF. The fact >> that this man killed both a male and a female former colleague strongly >> indicate that his problem was not gender-driven, that it was driven by the >> fact that these former colleagues had complained about him in the past. >> That people with this sort of sociopathy use gender-specific descriptive >> nouns is pretty much irrelevant, and I'm hard-pressed to understand why you >> think it important to start a conversation about the utterings of someone >> this mentally imbalanced to show that there is a gender gap *anywhere*, let >> alone here. This guy was a powder keg, and he was striking out at anyone >> whom he believed had caused him harm. I do not believe that his actions >> were motivated by sexism. >> >> Risker/Anne >> >> On 27 August 2015 at 03:01, Neotarf <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is there any doubt what this kind of language is for? >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIdrUHKkG6Y >>> It's not for a collaborative environment, that's for sure. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gendergap mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >>> visit: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >> visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >> visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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