Don't wear a white ribbon...

If you haven't read it, well now's the time. Here's an excellent essay why Jeffrey Asher entitled "Why I won't wear a white ribbon."

On 6 December 1989, Canadians were united in their horror and grief over the massacre at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. But the annual commemoration of the tragic murder of 14 women students has been exploited by the prominent feminists whose apparent objective is the alienation of women from men.

Their central propaganda claim is that Marc Lepine's murders unmasks the minds of men. Their invective proclaims that evil and violence are instinctive or imprinted into masculinity; and that fundamental male urges are the subjugation and abuse of women. Those, and similar pseudo-scientific claims have been sued as justifications for inequitable laws, anti-male sexual paranoia, and incitements to brutal revenge. Similarly, religious fanatics persecuted women as temptresses and witches. Feminists have not diagnosed Lepine as a suicidal psychopath, nor stereotyped him as a Catholic, nor as a Quebecois; but always as a man.

Please read the whole article. Here's his conclusion:

All hatred is terrifying because it is sincere. Hatred permits cruelty to others with a righteous conscience. By humiliating and condemning all men for women's legitimate grievances, an anti-male hate campaign is likely to justify and entrench malice against any scapegoat. The lives of women and men are intimately woven together, and harm to either sex must be suffered by the other. Anti-male hatred causes grief to most wives, lovers, daughters, sisters, and mothers. They care deeply about the men who are inseparable from their daily lives.

The white ribbon is a mark of shame that has no place among rational and compassionate men and women. Men and women must commit their consciences and hearts to closing the vast gulf that has been cut between them by sexist opportunists. We must begin to fill it with cooperation, respect, and love.