Then came 9/11 and the leader of its terrorist squad who had been taunted as a boy for not being “masculine” enough, refused to even accept his diploma from the hand of women, and had left instructions behind that no woman should be allowed to touch his body. From then on, I noticed the many lethal attempts at control in various countries. A few months later, a lone gunman in Montreal murdered 14 young women, students at a technical school that had rejected him as a student. She traced the deep political source of extreme violence to the self-perpetuating obsession of male-dominant cultures: Males must dominate at all costs, including to themselves.
Well before terrorism was a word in our daily lives, I read Robin Morgan’s The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism.
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