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Ladataan... Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You (vuoden 2015 painos)Tekijä: Donna Decker (Tekijä)
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Fiction. Women's Studies. Deirdre is a first-year female engineering student at Aquitaine, who takes a Women's Studies course as an elective. Marin, a student at Cantech, ponders what it means to be a female engineering student in such a chilly gendered climate. Jenean, a francophone female journalist working in both languages, is feisty and urbane, a feminist who longs for peace between the sexes even as she ponders splitting from her live-in partner. She finds herself on a killer's target list of 19 women. Set in a tragic historic moment, on two college campuses fraught with gendered antagonisms, this novel bears witness to the infamous "Montreal Massacre," when, on December 6, 1989, fourteen female engineering students were murdered in their classrooms. Through the braided narratives of these three women as they happen headlong into the tragedy, this novel examines the enduring effects of the massacre's 24 minutes of inarticulate inhumanity. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Is it more horrible because of that? Perhaps not. Yes, 51% of the world’s people are female, whereas only 10% are homosexual, but the target group based on tribal affiliations might be larger than 51% (especially when nations go after each other), and target groups based on skin color are most certainly larger than that (assuming it’s ‘white’ people killing non-‘white’ people).
Perhaps the horror is that we have been, willingly for the most part, sleeping with the enemy. For centuries.
Donna Decker’s Dancing in Red Shoes Can Kill You is a must-read. Especially for those too young to have been aware of the Montreal Massacre in 1989.
“There were men … who hated the idea of women’s equality so much, they were willing to kill in cold blood. In Canada.” (p213)
To be clear, whether we’re engineers or prostitutes, whether we’re under ten or over sixty, whether we’re heterosexual or lesbian, whether we’re white or black, whether we’re feminist or not—none of that matters. All that matters is that we’re female. (Which in itself should make us all feminist.) If ever there was a call to arms—
(And yet, before you pick up that gun—yes, even the one that’s fallen onto the floor out of the man’s hand—know that at least when ‘partners’ are involved, women who kill men spend an average of fifteen years in prison, whereas men who kill women spend about four years in prison.)
“She had [simply] written down [in her column] everything the guy in the coffee shop had said that morning … how he was furious with his feminist girlfriend and all feminists. She had embellished nothing. But they had refused to publish it.” (p321) They had called it anti-male. Note that. Pay attention to that. Simply exposing male hatred of women is anti-male. How do you figure that? Speaking the truth about men is anti-male? That means that reality is anti-male. Hm. What are you going to do with that?
And men? If this book doesn’t make you sick, and then determined to fix your brothers, you should, like Marc Lepine, put a bullet in your own head. (Thank you.) ( )