#memorial_féministe

Ce traumatisme a été déterminant pour la société québécoise qui a pris conscience de l’urgence de contrer le #sexisme en actes et dont la politique a évolué en se positionnant clairement du côté des féministes. Un exemple simple, l’alerte donnée pour une femme qui subit des violences fait qu’elle est rapidement protégée et prise en charge tandis que son agresseur est éloigné par une deuxième équipe.

#masculinisme

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Témoignage de la mère de Marc Lépine sur les violences et sévices du père.
Did Childhood Abuse Turn Marc Lépine into a Killer ?
▻http://bountiful.ca/abuse-turn-marc-lepine-mass-murderer

▻http://gutsmagazine.ca/issue-one/the-politics-of-memory-feminist-strategies-of-commemoration-in-canada

#victimes_du_patriarcat #mémorial_féministe
et comment sont minimisées les autres victimes du patriarcat que sont les femmes indigènes.

Feminist memorial-builders and scholars of memory have identified the “risks of symbolically conflating ‘woman’ with ‘victim’” in discussions about commemoration. Inscriptions on memorials have been painstakingly debated to avoid such re-victimization of femininity; meanwhile, the public has often reacted negatively to identifying male murderers as men. In the case of Vancouver’s ‘Marker of Change’, a monument to the École Polytechnique tragedy of December 6th, 1989, the proposed inscription included the phrase “in memory and in grief for all women murdered by men,” which prompted irate public outcry, accusations of misandry, and even bomb threats. The question of how to refer to the 1989 murders of fourteen women in Montreal is also fraught. Frequently referred to as the ‘Montreal Massacre,’ some critics have condemned the use of the term ‘massacre’ as inferring an isolated and insane tragedy, devoid of cultural context or systemic underpinnings. The event is also frequently named with reference to the school where it took place, as the École Polytechnique tragedy. While the shooting was certainly both a massacre and a tragedy, the decision to refer to it as the former (thus eschewing neutrality and justly retaining the connotations of criminal murder) or the latter (which bestows a strange passivity upon the events which could be shared with a natural disaster but maintains the sense of grief befitting what was certainly a tragic occurrence) is ultimately one of both political and personal preference. Whether to underscore murderousness or shame: it is a question of whether to speak in the language of anger or that of grief.

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The physical monuments to missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada receive neither the funding nor the prominence of those dedicated to the fourteen women killed in Montreal. The CRAB park boulder, located a few blocks from the Marker of Change, is inscribed with the words: “The heart has its own memory: In honour of the spirit of the people murdered in the Downtown Eastside. Many were women and many were Native. Aboriginal women. Many of these cases remain unsolved. All my relations.”