dontneedfeminism:

thatladysif:

A fucker named “don’t need feminism” reblogged my reblog trying to tell people that the Santa Barbara shooting IS ABOUT MISOGYNY telling me that the shooter’s motive is about revenge. Revenge against WHAT EXACTLY? Being a virgin at 22 years old? Not having a girlfriend? GIRLS DARING TO SAY NO TO HIM??? Yes, he’s mentally unsound, but there are mentally unsound females. DO YOU HEAR STORIES ABOUT FEMALES SHOOTING MALES FOR DARING TO SAY NO? haha no you don’t. Stop being apologists towards actions that are clearly misogynistic. STAPH If it happens once, then fine. Mentally unsound. Anomaly. But read the news things like the shooting happens all the time. Did you hear about the girl who rejected someone’s offer to bring her to prom? Do you know the price she paid for daring to say no? She died. There are so many cases. And you dare say it’s not an act of misogyny but an act of an isolated mentally unsound male. I CALL BULLSHIT

Revenge against women for rejecting him, and against men for getting laid when he couldn’t.

>Do you hear stories about females shooting males for daring to say no?

Actually, yes.

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Comedian Phil Hartman was murdered by his wife on May 27th 1998

NFL player Steve McNair was murdered by his girlfriend on July 4th, 2009

John Wayne Bobbitt had his penis cut completely off on June 23rd, 1993

Travis Alexander was murdered by Jodi Arias on June 4th, 2008

Andrew Bagby was murdered by Shirley Jane Turner on November 6th, 2001 (She later murdered their 1 year-old son on August 18th, 2003)

Brenda Spencer killed two and injured nine at Cleveland Elementary School on January 29th, 1979

Laurie Dann killed one boy and injured five others at Hubbard Woods Elementary School on May 20th, 1988

Jennifer San Marco killed eight people at Goleta postal facility on January 30th, 2006

Sylvia Seegrist killed three and injured seven during a shooting spree at a Springfield mall on October 30th, 1985

Mary Ann Holder killed five children including her own son in Pleasent Gardens, NC on November 20th, 2011

Jullian Robbins killed one and injured two at Penn State on September 17th, 1997

Heather Smith killed two then committed suicide at Spanaway Junior High School on November 26th, 1985

Latina Williams killed two others then self at Louisiana Technical College on February 8th, 2008

Amy Bishop Anderson killed three and wounded three others at the University of Alabama on February 12th, 2010

What’s most interesting though is that mainstream media doesn’t even mention female shooters when they claim to show the history of the crime — but I guess they’re going by high scores. While its true that most shooting sprees are committed by males, it is also true that most child abuse, neglect, and murders are committed by females.

Women who killed or attempted to kill children in the news, past 30 days (US):

Women who killed or attempted to kill children in the news between January and April 2014 (US):

This is only mid-year and I didn’t even include the reports of mothers killing their children from previous years or other countries.

In the end this is the truth: both genders commit crimes, some types more than others but violence is a human issue and not a gender issue. If you look into the reports of all of these school shootings for example you’ll start to notice that mental health disorders and illnesses are a common theme among others like poor living conditions and/or a history of abuse but are dismissed for a simplistic, apathetic excuse like “misogyny” or “man equal violent”. What a coincidence that the mental health and victimization of males is not in the slightest taken seriously in this country until they act out and hurt someone, especially if that someone is a woman. But even then it becomes a crusade to maximize punishment rather than to understand what made this individual behave in a negative way. If males make up over 90% of the prison population and if the prison industrial complex is any indication of what harsh punishment does to men, wouldn’t it make sense to take their issues a little more fucking seriously than to just dismiss them outright based on your personal baggage or your political agenda?