Buried in the NYT piece about the Texas school shooting - incredibly relevant and sadly unsurprising

[kpete]

Link to tweet

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility of this impt point

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[Corgigal]

3. Women are the first target.

I remember that Vice Nazi ride along, it always begins with women, then race or any other thing.

Men claim it's not, they will bring up some bs logic, but it's about sex and they believe they should have sex with what they believe they should have. Animal husbandry classes might need to be taught in high school. Biology works for a reason, and you need lots of resources to raise a child. It factors into sex selection, even if you don't want a child.

[loyalsister]

17. Careful

Gene selection is the basis of the US eugenics movement that was used as a model for elimination of an ethnic group. Buck vs. Bell.... Carrie Buck was sterilized without her consent because of a presumed likelihood that her genes would produce degenerate offspring.
Women were targeted as potential mothers of genetic expressions of both parents. Particularly genetic expressions of race & pysical, behavioral, and intellectual defects.The application of animal husbandry was applied to humans through policy in the US. Nazi Germany used the same ideas to justify their hate and mission. What began as a partnership between the American Breeders Association and believers in genetic superiority led to genocide. The ideas behind it all have not gone away. Intentional gene selection is happening. I think animal husbandry policies should be left to non human animals.
BTW, eugenics was once taught in the US as advice for women.
Thus, we have done what has been suggested, and we should be cautious with ideas regarding biological superiority among humans

[Corgigal]

22. What?

I'm thinking why a woman choose which men to breed with. It's more complicated then, he's hot.

[pamela]

4. Most of the victims were women.

I noticed that last night when they started releasing photos.

[LisaL]

5. I noticed that as well.

[Demovictory9]

19. me too

[marble falls]

6. Part of the incel phenomenon. Mix in some bullying and we get this disaster.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. Its good Melania's on the case against bullying. Not

[marble falls]

20. Much, much more pissed-off with her asshat hubby than with Milania regarding the gun craziness.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Hell ya! But I find her disturbing too :)

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[dalton99a]

8. A rather important detail

[yardwork]

9. He shot his ex-girlfriend and her friends.

[Jim__]

10. Kole Dixon sprinted out a side door.

Of course, if we followed Governor Abbott's idea, there wouldn't have been a side door.

[OldHippieChick]

12. Not defending Abbott, but

I think it was the Lt. Gov. who said there were too many doors.

[Jim__]

13. You're right. I had heard it was Abbott.

[LisaL]

14. What a great idea. Especially if there is a fire.

[OldHippieChick]

15. Yes, true oxymoron is

"brainy Republican".

[KY_EnviroGuy]

18. Or, a hurricane. Or, a flash flood....

There's no way the fire marshal, much less the insurance actuaries will allow fewer doors. Egress standards are well defined science and carved in stone, primarily for escape of any possible fire situation.

More secure doors perhaps, but highly unlikely they will allow less.

The Texas politicians pulled this out of their ass.....

[mountain grammy]

16. I know I sound like a broken record but,

Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.

[Devil Child]

21. Well said, and can't be said enough

[RandomAccess]

26. Louis C.K., wasn't it?

Brilliant observation, in any case.

[mountain grammy]

33. Margaret Atwood

[RandomAccess]

36. Well, I wasn't too far off

Thanks.

Louis CK either repeated it, without attribution, or said something so similar it was almost indistinguishable. I could probably dig up the video.

[mountain grammy]

37. I had to look it up because I wasn't sure.

Saw it a long time ago and it struck a chord with me. Never forgot it.

[smirkymonkey]

23. I didn't know that, but I found it strange that he chose to shoot up an art class.

I guess this explains why. I am so sick of men and boys who feel entitled to women's lives and bodies.

[LisaL]

25. Apparently the girl wasn't his girlfriend but someone he wanted to be his girlfriend.

She kept turning him down. She was the first person killed, so I am pretty sure that's the same girl the student believed to be shooter's ex-girlfriend.

Rodriguez says: "He kept making advances on her and she repeatedly told him no," but the advances got more aggressive.

https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/The-Latest-Hospital-says-2-school-attack-victims-12927719.php?ipid=happening

[kpete]

32. Update from her mom:

Shana Fisher "had 4 months of problems from this boy," her mother, Sadie Rodriguez, wrote in a private message to the Los Angeles Times on Facebook. "He kept making advances on her and she repeatedly told him no."

Link to tweet

[Kittycow]

34. In the linked Chronical article, there's a pic of a couple grade school kids

looking at the memorial table at the community potluck.

I wonder if they are feeling scared it could happen to them next. I wonder what words their parents are using to reassure them.

"Jesus will protect you? I will protect you? The police will protect you? The teachers will get guns and protect you? I'll get you a bullet proof vest? It won't happen twice here?"

What do you tell your kid standing there at the memorial table while they watch everybody crying and hugging at the potluck because a bunch of kids got murdered at school again?

[RandomAccess]

27. Why ISN'T that a huge part of the discussion

It needs to be.

Perversely, it reminds me of what the cops say when men kill their ex-girlfriends or estranged wives: no motive has been established.

What?? The motive is: If I can't have her, she doesn't deserve to live. And I'll take care of that.

[bettyellen]

28. Not Ex GF, just someone he wanted to date. Shouldn't taint her life when she actually had better

judgement than to date him.

[LisaL]

31. Yep, sounds like his motive was revenge because the girl rejected him.

[ehrnst]

29. Another "lovesick boy," as the media likes to describe them.

Jesus.

Male privilege. She owes him validation, or he destroys her world and everything along with it.

[gratuitous]

30. Couldn't get a girlfriend, but could get a gun

10 more human sacrifices to our national religion, the High Church of Redemptive Violence.

[Guilded Lilly]

35. Almost too furious to even talk about misogyny anymore...

but it is so deeply ingrained in a lot of males, we HAVE to address it and make those males accountable for it.

Some use bullying to combat it, some-denigration, some-very subtle patronizing, some-calculated campaigns of lies/character assassination but...way too many-use hideous violence.

Entitlement violence. Revenge violence. I-own-you violence. Sexual violence. Threatened by feminine strength violence. Controlling violence. Maim beat pummel kill violence. From weakness and insecurity comes the most vicious attacks, physical and verbal.

Those who practice it in any form are the biggest open threat to every female on the planet, every day.

We can’t ignore it.