SOCB22H3 : Week 11
Document Summary
What i learned from the montreal massacre- marc lepine and. Lesson 1; making out the culprit as deviant relieves one of his. Responsibility: parallel between panty raid and massacre; cultural practice of making-out-the- culprit- as-deviant, a few bad crops" took it too far by the blood and shit brigade on the panties. Lesson 2; demonizing the complainant leaves the problem. It"s no accident that the montreal murderer blamed feminists" for his troubles, that. Feminist" and feminism have become demonized, and feminism" has turned into a dismissive insult, all the feminist issues are marginalized. Lesson 3: there"s a troubling moral- emotional economy of/to. Lesson 4: reifying gender categories is good intellectual. Me and marc lepine: first there is anger. Conclusions: the burden of the lessons: anonymizing and depersonalizing people, rendering them as instances of political category for the purposes of acting towards them- these are the practices of dehumanization that rationalize inhuman acts.
