- Re: Massacre in Nova Scotia linked to domestic violence Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron
on April 26, 2020, 6:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Massacre in Nova Scotia linked to domestic violence"
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"I mean that a lot of the men who commit mass murders are abusers of their partners and families. So it's an important warning sign." Sure but there wasn't a history of domestic abuse that we know of until the point that this kicked off. "I am not yet convinced that he specifically targeted women." -The evidence so far doesn't back it up. "...But he did express his frustrations, disappointments and losses in violence and destruction." That's for certain. I'm pretty doubtful about the usefulness of "toxic masculinity" as a concept that can enlighten us about anything but its certainly hard to escape the thought that there is some kind of "toxic materialism": especially shown in domestic murder-suicide cases where men (and indeed it nearly always is men) go on the rampage, killing their wife and children: often torching the family home, cars, killing the dog etc. It's often precipitated by some serious underlying financial or domestic relationship issues of the husband/father: often hidden, in a family that on the surface seems prosperous & "picture-book" but is shortly to crash. But it's the underlying idea of ownership: i.e. they regard other individuals: their wife & children as their own personal "belongings" which they can do what they want with that is difficult to comprehend. People who can view their actual family as chattels that they have a right to dispose of whatever way they see fit clearly can't be seeing the rest of us as unique human beings or individuals either. |