Yeah ultimately the reason misogyny needs to be taken so seriously is shit like this and the overturn of women’s rights in some countries.

That said, misogynistic violence is not new and it hasn’t been dormant. You have incidents like the shit what’s his name, the incel with a crush on his sister who shot a bunch of people in California like a decade ago and you can draw a clear line from the École Polytechnique massacre through it to here with many other stops along the way.

Tate is telling boys and young men that they aren’t real men unless they feel entitled to women and act on it. Incels had similar entitlement leading to Jordan Peterson’s “enforced monogamy” stance.