These school shootings often include an aggrieved sexual entitlement on the part of the shooter. And so many of these mass shootings, well over 50 percent, close to 60 percent, begin with a history or an incident of intimate partner or known acquaintance violence.
“I never thought that I would live in a society where the KKK is running around in the daytime. That’s what people before me marched for.” - Mango Vega
On Saturday, almost 2000 New Yorkers held an anti-Trump rally and marched from Trump International Hotel and Tower in Columbus Circle to Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. Democracy Now!’s Amy Littlefield attended the march and spoke with attendees, where 3 were arrested and some were pepper sprayed amidst heavy police presence.
Women are being driven offline. This isn’t just in gaming, this is happening across the board online — especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries.
“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern,” author and historian Rebecca Solnit says on Democracy Now! today. “Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.”
In response to last week’s deadly rampage in Santa Barbara, tens of thousands of women reacted online, joining together to tell their stories of sexual violence, harassment and intimidation using the hashtag #YesAllWomen. In speaking out, women were placing the shooting inside a broader context of misogynist violence that often goes ignored.