A Time to Listen
Last week some guy went on a murder rampage/suicide after posting a bunch of videos and a very long written diatribe about how unfair the world is and how he never got the women that he deserved. These kinds of stories never interest me. The specifics of particular crazy and/or evil people just don’t grab my imagination, shock me, or make me go through the processes that normal people do. However, something that HAS interested me is the ripple this sent through the social media world. His misogynist views sparked a giant ruckus amongst the feminist community, causing a lot of usually-closet feminists to come out loud. The interesting thing to me was the tenor of the messages I was seeing. It seemed almost like a backlash against men qua man. It seemed that way to others as well, which lead a lot of men to be become defensive. No one likes to be painted with a broad brush or accused of aiding and abetting terrible things. This is where things...