Journée nationale de commémoration et d'action contre la violence faite aux femmes | The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
Do you have an English version of this...I'd love to share it on my two Facebooks, but 90% there are English-speakers/readers.
If I've read correctly, someone commented that the women were murdered because they sought an education. I quibble with that point-of-view. They were murdered because someone -- a man in this case -- hated educated women and had access to weapons and lived in a world where some men think it's okay to destroy a person they hate.
Ann, as always, grateful that you read me. I have updated the blog post with an English version so that you might share it more widely -- merci. You read correctly -- one of the experts I interviewed a few years ago highlighted the education dimension of the Polytechnique massacre: the killer had shot the 14 women in part because they were women in a "men's field." But you are right in saying that he hated women, and that's why he sought to destroy these women. A terrible, terrible day. One I will never forget.
So powerful to say the names aloud, isn't it?
Do you have an English version of this...I'd love to share it on my two Facebooks, but 90% there are English-speakers/readers.
If I've read correctly, someone commented that the women were murdered because they sought an education. I quibble with that point-of-view. They were murdered because someone -- a man in this case -- hated educated women and had access to weapons and lived in a world where some men think it's okay to destroy a person they hate.
Ann, as always, grateful that you read me. I have updated the blog post with an English version so that you might share it more widely -- merci. You read correctly -- one of the experts I interviewed a few years ago highlighted the education dimension of the Polytechnique massacre: the killer had shot the 14 women in part because they were women in a "men's field." But you are right in saying that he hated women, and that's why he sought to destroy these women. A terrible, terrible day. One I will never forget.