tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post115989517061662847..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Where's the Outrage?Bardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1160187322165486822006-10-06T19:15:00.000-07:002006-10-06T19:15:00.000-07:00Exactly. Thank you.Exactly. Thank you.Heohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15790601758953554870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1160146633241587582006-10-06T07:57:00.000-07:002006-10-06T07:57:00.000-07:00Here is what some people in Canada did after Montr...Here is what some people in Canada did after Montreal: http://www.whiteribbon.ca/<BR/><BR/>Great post!grumpyABDadjuncthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00996252815514179671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1159994297945135502006-10-04T13:38:00.000-07:002006-10-04T13:38:00.000-07:00Great post, Bardiac -- hey, could we all here make...Great post, Bardiac -- hey, could we all here make a mutual commitment to engage in some outrage??? The director of My U's center for violence against women (trying to stop it, not do it, of course!) recently asked this:<BR/><BR/>"Facebook, a multbazillion dollar company, had to reverse a decision it made because of 2 days of pressure from -- hey! -- Facebook groups! That's a lot of activism! So what I want to know is: WHERE'S MY FACEBOOK GROUP AGAINST VIOLENCE?" <BR/><BR/>Shall we start one? And then write a lot of letters to the editor, etc? Because if we're all just talking to each other here, we're just talking to ourselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1159980003627981512006-10-04T09:40:00.000-07:002006-10-04T09:40:00.000-07:00Once again, you've summed up my thoughts in a mann...Once again, you've summed up my thoughts in a manner I've been unable to do...But I've also been struck at the lack of coverage OVERALL regarding these shootings over the past few weeks. The event in Colorado barely made the paper around here; the event against the Amish girls has been discussed, but as stated above, mostly for the novelty of the setting and the difficulty that police and rescue officers had in getting parents reunited with children due to refusals to ride in helicopters or motorized vehicles. Where's the outrage in general -- as well as regarding the misogynist quality of each of these events???<BR/>AArtemishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15321501062140234923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1159970046274213732006-10-04T06:54:00.000-07:002006-10-04T06:54:00.000-07:00And I wanted to put in a second good word for _Tou...And I wanted to put in a second good word for _Tough Guise_. It's a great film - and a *great* teaching tool; students love it.Hilairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09033740943173352249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1159966754970994322006-10-04T05:59:00.000-07:002006-10-04T05:59:00.000-07:00I wholeheartedly agree - I had the same reaction l...I wholeheartedly agree - I had the same reaction last night when I heard that the gunman had let everyone go except all the girls - then there was the whole suggestion that he was going to *violate* them in other ways before the police came in and he started shooting them and then himself. Paula Zahn led coverage of the story with the line: "What a killer *almost* did..." - everyone was emphasizing that the guy didn't get a chance to rape or sexually molest the girls (because, apparently, he'd done that years before) - but he was still acting out violence AGAINST WOMEN. This wasn't a close-call, folks! Let's not pat ourselves on the back!! Lining them up in front of the blackboard and executing them is not just a random act of violence against children in general.<BR/><BR/>But we focus on the perpetrator as someone who is completely anti-social (an anti-religious pedophile nut-job) - or even the way Foley has now come out and said "and, by the way, I'm gay" (as if that somehow explains away his actions - gay doesn't = sexual deviance, Mr. Foley!) - I know I'm getting a little off topic because we're talking about men terrorizing women. But as long as we keep focusing on making it violence against a *child* only or focusing on how the perp is so completely alien and bizarre to our culture (i.e., he's not a *good* man, *good* men don't hurt women), then we mask the fact that it's actually not a sensationalistic freakish incident (like a comet hitting the earth - i.e., something that we can't do anything about; something that's just one of those things that *happens* because there are loonies running around) but part of a larger much more pervasive and long-standing dynamic of violence against women. And it has to f*cking STOP!!!medieval womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17278854285443306227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1159961750354116102006-10-04T04:35:00.000-07:002006-10-04T04:35:00.000-07:00Excellent points, bardiac. And I would very much ...Excellent points, bardiac. And I would very much like to see that film, Flavia.Chaserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124246378936489539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1159899870427920782006-10-03T11:24:00.000-07:002006-10-03T11:24:00.000-07:00In my composition class last year (which used a st...In my composition class last year (which used a standard syllabus over which I had no input or control), we screened Jackson Katz's film "Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity." Katz talks extensively about school shootings and how the media coverage always portrays these shooting as being about "kids killing kids," and asks, "what's wrong with kids today?" without discussing the fact that it's NOT "kids," it's boys and young men.<BR/><BR/>The film touches only partly on what you're talking about, but if you haven't seen it, it's really worth viewing (it was one of the few things that I loved about that syllabus!).Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1159897931572109642006-10-03T10:52:00.000-07:002006-10-03T10:52:00.000-07:00Yes!!!! I agree with you! Where is the analysis? I...Yes!!!! I agree with you! Where is the analysis? I read all about yesterday's shootings in the Globe and Mail (a Canadian newspaper). There was not a shred of discussion of the context of this as a shooting of girls. Instead, the various authors of the numerous reports and commentaries focused on the Amish in a fetishistic way that made me profoundly uncomfortable. Somehow it felt like it was a deferral of the gender question - like they got to say, "whew! That was a close one! We almost had to address hard questions about violence against women and girls! Thank goodness the afflicted folks were Amish - instead we can devote our column inches to descriptions of their clothing and beards...and our "analyses" to romantic, exoticized portraits of a community..."<BR/><BR/>Great post, Bardiac.Hilairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09033740943173352249noreply@blogger.com