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I think this piece starts out really well with a reminder of what girls actually have to put up with from their male peers from a young age

You get so much weeping and wailing from the man fandom online about HoW MeAnNNNnNn women are for casually saying men suck, while boys openly laugh about rape, and the girls in their classes realize that their classmates see them as subhuman. I'm not screenshotting all of this article, but most of it

There is an overlap between mass shooters and incels as well, with several inspired by the same shooter, Elliot Rodger.

And as for domestic violence:

The massacre at the University of Texas at Austin occurred in 1966, when student and ex-Marine Charles Whitman took his guns to the university’s clocktower and fired at people on the campus below, killing 14 and wounding 32 people (one person would die later of complications related to a gunshot wound). A week after the shooting took place, a Travis County Grand Jury declared that Whitman was an individual who had “suddenly gone completely berserk, with no warning to his family or friends.” But the Travis County Grand Jury was missing crucial information. Although acknowledging that Whitman had first killed his mother and then murdered his 23-year-old wife in the hours leading up to the shooting, the jury—like most Americans even today—did not recognize that domestic murders represent the far end of a continuum of ongoing abuse rather than a sudden or random incident.

54% of mass shootings between 2009 and 2016 were directly related to domestic or family violence — meaning that a current partner or family member is one of the victims. In one of those cases, Cedric Anderson walked into his new wife’s elementary school classroom in San Bernandino, Calif. in April and killed her, an 8-year old special needs student, and himself. But even among the other 46% of mass shootings that don’t directly involve an intimate partner, many of the attackers have a violent misogynistic incident in their past. The Everytown study found that 42% of all mass shooters had exhibited at least one warning sign, such as a prior violent act or domestic violence incident.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.