As it turns out, the most horrifying aspect of the attack at Isla Vista, California, may have been that it hasn't happened before now, coupled with the stone certainty you develop at a certain age that it could, and will, happen again.
I know no more than anyone else what the trigger was for Eric Rodgers, or if there were one singular event/incident. No single drop of rain feels itself responsible for the flood that follows.
As a husband who strives to treat his spouse with the respect and love to which she is entitled, I read accounts of Rodgers' life as if they were picture postcards from the moon, written in Cyrillic.
As a father who has helped raise a now adult son to be respectful of every person with whom he shares the earth and whose adult daughter is a confident and talented young woman, I look at those in and/or sympathetic to the men's rights movement as an aberration-an answer in search of a non-existent question.
Women as a form of furniture, which is what so much of the so-called men's rights movement espouses is just so much systematic mumbo-jumbo. When you blame others for your feelings of inadequacy, you are actually proving yourself to be both worthless and worth less than the rest of us here on the ant farm.
We are of the same biology-the differences manifested by ideology are artificial, superficial and will kill us all, collectively or one at a time, if we allow them to so do. And wondering about who the real men are will bring us to the brink of extermination faster than anything else.
Everyone's rights deserve respect and protection. Nothing less will do.
-bill kenny
No comments:
Post a Comment