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Today is December 6th
Dec. 6th, 2012 02:06 pmIn 1989 a guy walked into a Montreal technical college classroom, separated the men from the women, and shot the women - for being women, for being women studying in a 'man's world. Then he shot himself.
A little older than me, they would have graduated, and been 20+ years into their fields by now - or wherever their lives would have taken them.
I don't often talk about feminism or views on equality, not the way I did in university when all these concepts where fresh and new. But those deaths remind me that even in civil society, even in somewhere as comfortably modern as Canada, women are not equal to men.
A little older than me, they would have graduated, and been 20+ years into their fields by now - or wherever their lives would have taken them.
I don't often talk about feminism or views on equality, not the way I did in university when all these concepts where fresh and new. But those deaths remind me that even in civil society, even in somewhere as comfortably modern as Canada, women are not equal to men.
