Though we’re drifting a tad from the main thrust of that noted post (double standards on cherry-picking and demonization), I will indulge.
First, a look at certain relevant excerpts from Marc Lépine’s own suicide note from December 6th, 1989:
“Because I have decided to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker. “
“…I consider myself a rational erudite …”
“…the feminists have always enraged me. They want to keep the advantages of women (e.g. cheaper insurance, extended maternity leave preceded by a preventative leave, etc.) while seizing for themselves those of men.”
“Thus it is an obvious truth that if the Olympic Games removed the Men-Women distinction, there would be Women only in the graceful events. So the feminists are not fighting to remove that barrier. They are so opportunistic they do not neglect to profit from the knowledge accumulated by men through the ages.“
And now, some fine sentiments from a consciously selected variety of Men’s Rights Activists:
1. Paul Elam, A Voice For Men founder
“AVfM regards feminists, manginas, white knights and other agents of misandry as a social malignancy. We do not consider them well intentioned or honest agents for their purported goals and extend to them no more courtesy or consideration than we would clansmen [sic], skinheads, neo Nazis or other purveyors of hate.“
2. Dr. Helen Smith, forensic psychologist, PJ Media:
“Liberals' need to denigrate men and privilege women is now common place.”
3. Numerous Youtube penny-polemicists, including Phil Mason, a.k.a. Thunderf00t:
“Feminism poisons EVERYTHING”
And here’s a freebie - Jean-Claude Rochefort, Quebecois blogger:
“Quebec feminists have always had a huge desire to control information -- which they can now do, because Canadian media are so full of them. Obviously for them, the rights, wishes and demands of men and fathers should remain buried under their day-to-day censorship, and this is precisely what induced Marc to pick up that gun!”
Naturally, some MRA’s will not want to be associated with Lépine, and perhaps a portion won’t even like to acknowledge the ideological similarities between Lépine and the others quoted above.
So why then would it be considered good form to hold up extreme or misguided feminists as representative of the whole? You might only think of feminism as “Big Red” or “TrigglyPuff”, blissfully unaware of figures like Wendy McElroy or Susie Bright.
Every movement and school of thought has its fringe of embarrassing extremists.