Spelade
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The 6th of December 2019 marks the 30 year anniversary of the Montreal massacre, a dark day in Canadian history. It was the day that gunman Marc Lépine walked into an engineering school and shot dead 14 female students.
As he shot the women, he exclaimed that he hated feminists, and that feminists had ruined his life. This sentiment was backed up in his manifesto. A manifesto that shares a great number of themes with that of Isla Vista killer Elliot Roger, or the motivations the 2018 Toronto van killer, Alek Minnassian.
But with the continued glorification and martyrdom of the likes of Lépine, Rodger and Minassian - how far have we really come?
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spsAJ76rP3I&t=816s
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/03/montreal-massacre-canadas-feminists-remember
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.4435607/this-is-how-one-survivor-described-the-montreal-massacre-the-day-after-the-shooting-1.4435613
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/polytechnique-tragedy
https://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/montreal-massacre
https://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/learn/resources/women-violence-and-montréal-massacre-lee-lakeman
https://www.flare.com/news/remember-the-women-of-the-montreal-massacre-by-more-than-just-their-names/
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/polytechnique-massacre-lives-forever-changed
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mass-shooting-reshaped-canadian-debate-about-guns-and-political-identity-180962013/
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/montreal-massacre-ecole-polytechnique-trudeau_ca_5cd57b57e4b07bc729787a6d
https://globalnews.ca/news/6187845/montreal-massacre-victims/
https://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/5184229-montreal-massacre-changed-us-forever/
http://theconversation.com/the-1989-polytechnique-massacre-was-an-act-of-terrorism-against-all-women-108260
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This week the girls delve into the all too common world of the celebrity paedophile and institutions who turn a blind eye.
Ian Watkins was the lead singer of Welsh rock band Lostprophets. He toured all over the world, playing to sold out stadiums of adoring fans - so in 2012 when he was arrested and charged with 13 counts of child sex offences, including against a child as young as 11 months old, the world was shocked.
This is a particularly troubling case because it of course covers the abuse this depraved man doled out to incredibly young victims, but there are also deeply troubling questions raised about why authorities missed chance after chance to catch Watkins.
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