I Hate Feminists

I Hate Feminists
ISBN-10
1742199445
ISBN-13
9781742199443
Category
Anti-feminism
Language
English
Published
2014-01-12
Author
Melissa Blais

Description

On December 6, 1989, a man walked into the engineering school École Polytechnique de Montréal, armed with a semi-automatic rifle. Declaring "I hate feminists," Marc Lépine killed fourteen young women. Originally published in French in 2009, "I Hate Feminists!" examines the collective memory that emerged in the aftermath of the massacre as Canadians struggled to make sense of this tragic event and to understand the motivations of the killer. Analyzing stories and editorials in Montréal and Toronto newspapers, texts distributed within anti-feminist "masculinist" networks, discourses about memorials in major Canadian cities and the film Polytechnique, which was released on the twentieth anniversary of the massacre in 2009,

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