theglowpt2:

i haven’t seen a lot about this on here yet so if you weren’t already aware, last night in tallahassee florida a man shot and killed two women by open-firing at a yoda studio. Since then it’s come to light that the shooter proudly called himself a misogynist and described himself as “involuntarily celibate” aka part of the incel community. He had a youtube channel where he regularly posted misogynistic and far right extremist rants about his hatred for women, interracial relationships, black people, and gay people. In one video he even references Elliot Rodger, a sort of “incel icon” who was responsible for killing six people in California in 2014 with the motive of hating women. He had also been arrested twice for groping women in the past. This whole thing feels frighteningly similar to the LA Fitness shooting back in 2009 where a man open-fired at a women’s aerobics class and killed three women and afterwards a note was found in his bag describing how much he hated women. 

I feel like sometimes the way feminism and misogyny are discussed today waters things down so much that we can forget that misogyny isn’t just some buzzword we came up with to discuss how men can be assholes, and that it has an actual body count. The hated of women is a real, insidious thing that fuels violence in men and it’s terrifying to think that just existing as a woman puts a target on your back and you might be gunned down by some creep who blames you for the fact that he isn’t having sex. And the rise of the “incel” movement and figures like jordan peterson have only fueled this. Violent misogyny still exists in 2018 and it’s truly frightening. 

Florida Yoga Studio Shooting Suspect Was A Far-Right Misogynist