Dec. 6 is the anniversary of Marc Lépine’s misogynistic assault on École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1989. On that day, Mr. Lépine entered a classroom armed with a semi-automatic rifle. He asked all the men to leave and then opened fire. He murdered 14 women and wounded another 14 people before taking his own life.
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The day before the anniversary, Mr. Rochefort posted an altered photo depicting Mr. Lépine with an assault rifle in front of a group of women, telling his readers that Dec. 6 “should be a day when we remember the first counterattack against the femin*zis’ war on men.” In August, 2022, he was convicted of inciting hatred toward women.
Some incidents of incel violence have started to be treated as acts of terrorism, and the Canadian governemtn IIRC has recently considered treating the incel “movement” as a domestic terrorism threat.
You’ve eliminated like everything about him from discussion.
ha. well, presuamably there would be some investigation RE assumptions about the value of work and the (ir)reducibility to meaning/content (art being reducible to a set of statements); obviously artist/work distinctions (and the degree to which anyone’s life is a work, in like a Nietzschean sense I guess); the ability of art to be perverse/profane or illuminate/depict what is ugly; art as an outlet for the mentally ill; the relationship between artist and listener; ethical considerations of art. and so on.
