@GeofCox @randahl I don't believe this is 'the political right'. I believe that this is people who are powerful, testing just how powerful they are.
I wrote about it six years ago, and I still believe this is fundamentally true.
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen
#Billionaires
#TheAndrewFormerlyKnownAsPrince
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2020-07-24-rape-grouse-and-the-pathology-of-power/

Rape, grouse, and the pathology of power
Just as, as feminists keep saying, rape is not (mainly) about sex, so enclosing the uplands is not mainly about improving agriculture — the new 'improved' agriculture could make no use of such marginal land. What had been, from April to September, the summer shieling of tens or hundreds of thousands of subsistence farmers, became an arena, for a few days in August, to display the power of the few.
The Fool on the Hill
Event marks 36 years since Polytechnique Montreal Massacre, honours 14 slain women
YouTubeToday I remember:
Geneviève Bergeron, 21
Hélène Colgan, 23
Nathalie Croteau, 23
Barbara Daignault, 22
Anne-Marie Edward, 21
Maud Haviarnick, 29
Barbara Klucznick-Widajewicz, 31
Maryse Lagaière, 25
Maryse Leclair, 23
Anne-Marie Lemay, 22
Sonia Pelletier, 23
Michèle Richard, 21
Anne St-Arneault, 23
Annie Turcotte, 21
The conversation around violence against women is as important now as it was in 1989.
#endviolenceagainstwomen https://accomponent.ca/national-day-of-remembrance-action-on-violence-against-women/
National Day of Remembrance & Action on Violence Against Women - AC Component
On December 6, we mark the National Day of Remembrance & Action on Violence Against Women, a solemn day to honour the 14 women whose lives were stolen at Montréal’s École Polytechnique in 1989 because they were women. Their names remain a reminder of the urgent need to confront gender-based violence in all its forms: …
AC ComponentScholarships created to honour women killed 36 years ago at École Polytechnique - the Order of the White Rose
#EcolePolytechnique #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #Canada
https://youtu.be/Rl4934l1Cq8?si=QFTSgTt4yBRVoai2

Scholarship honours women killed at École Polytechnique
YouTubeAfrica: Why a Woman Is Killed Every 10 Minutes - the Rising Wave of Global Femicide: [UN News] Every 10 minutes, partners and family members killed a woman intentionally in 2024 and that trend is growing, according to the UN.
http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPSyqw #Femicide #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #GenderEquality #WomenRights #UNReportsStanding against gender-based violence on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Let's raise awareness and support survivors.
#EndViolenceAgainstWomen #OrangeTheWorld #SupportSurvivors 🧡🚫