Top Conservative Publication Attributes Newtown To Feminism: Shooting Occurred Because Women Ran The
12:46 pm - 12/19/2012
Top Conservative Publication Attributes Newtown To Feminism: Shooting Occurred Because Women Ran The School
If there were less women and more “male aggression” in Sandy Hook Elementary School, the massacre there never would have taken place, according to a contribution to a leading conservative magazine.
National Review, whose inhouse editorial suggested Newtown was the price of the Second Amendment, published a piece on Wednesday from anti-feminist Charlotte Allen suggesting the reason the shooter was able to kill so many students was because Newtown was a “feminized setting:”
There was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred. In this school of 450 students, a sizeable number of whom were undoubtedly 11- and 12-year-old boys (it was a K–6 school), all the personnel — the teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school psychologist, the “reading specialist” — were female. There didn’t even seem to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza’s knees. Women and small children are sitting ducks for mass-murderers. The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, seemed to have performed bravely. According to reports, she activated the school’s public-address system and also lunged at Lanza, before he shot her to death. Some of the teachers managed to save all or some of their charges by rushing them into closets or bathrooms. But in general, a feminized setting is a setting in which helpless passivity is the norm. Male aggression can be a good thing, as in protecting the weak — but it has been forced out of the culture of elementary schools and the education schools that train their personnel. Think of what Sandy Hook might have been like if a couple of male teachers who had played high-school football, or even some of the huskier 12-year-old boys, had converged on Lanza.
Via Jessica Valenti, who notes that this is extraordinarily “disrespectful to the female teachers and staff at Sandy Hook. Allen mentions their heroism as an anomalous aside rather than exceptional bravery that saved lives. The bravery of the women in Newtown – principal Dawn Hochsprung and psychologist Mary Sherlach who rushed the shooter before being killed, teacher Victoria Soto who died protecting her students, Kaitlin Roig and Abbey Clements who hid their students and calmed them – is remarkable.”
Allen went on to blame Lanza’s mother, saying “You simply can’t give a non-working, non-school-enrolled 20-year-old man free range of your home, much less your cache of weapons…Unfortunately, the idea of being an ‘adult’ and a ‘man’ once one has reached physical maturity seems to have faded out of our coddling culture.”
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If there were less women and more “male aggression” in Sandy Hook Elementary School, the massacre there never would have taken place, according to a contribution to a leading conservative magazine.
National Review, whose inhouse editorial suggested Newtown was the price of the Second Amendment, published a piece on Wednesday from anti-feminist Charlotte Allen suggesting the reason the shooter was able to kill so many students was because Newtown was a “feminized setting:”
There was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred. In this school of 450 students, a sizeable number of whom were undoubtedly 11- and 12-year-old boys (it was a K–6 school), all the personnel — the teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school psychologist, the “reading specialist” — were female. There didn’t even seem to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza’s knees. Women and small children are sitting ducks for mass-murderers. The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, seemed to have performed bravely. According to reports, she activated the school’s public-address system and also lunged at Lanza, before he shot her to death. Some of the teachers managed to save all or some of their charges by rushing them into closets or bathrooms. But in general, a feminized setting is a setting in which helpless passivity is the norm. Male aggression can be a good thing, as in protecting the weak — but it has been forced out of the culture of elementary schools and the education schools that train their personnel. Think of what Sandy Hook might have been like if a couple of male teachers who had played high-school football, or even some of the huskier 12-year-old boys, had converged on Lanza.
Via Jessica Valenti, who notes that this is extraordinarily “disrespectful to the female teachers and staff at Sandy Hook. Allen mentions their heroism as an anomalous aside rather than exceptional bravery that saved lives. The bravery of the women in Newtown – principal Dawn Hochsprung and psychologist Mary Sherlach who rushed the shooter before being killed, teacher Victoria Soto who died protecting her students, Kaitlin Roig and Abbey Clements who hid their students and calmed them – is remarkable.”
Allen went on to blame Lanza’s mother, saying “You simply can’t give a non-working, non-school-enrolled 20-year-old man free range of your home, much less your cache of weapons…Unfortunately, the idea of being an ‘adult’ and a ‘man’ once one has reached physical maturity seems to have faded out of our coddling culture.”
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Um, no. Everyone is a sitting duck when you have an attacker that A)has guns and B)they are fucking assault rifles with multiple round capability.
Though I read a story about the male janitor. He risked his life warning people to hide!
and the poor damsels in distress who educate them!
oh my god and this part a feminized setting is a setting in which helpless passivity is the norm. Male aggression can be a good thing, as in protecting the weak — but it has been forced out of the culture of elementary schools and the education schools that train their personnel. Think of what Sandy Hook might have been like if a couple of male teachers who had played high-school football, or even some of the huskier 12-year-old boys, had converged on Lanza.
who the fuck
what the fuck
actually, it was K-4. It would have taken the author like 30 seconds using google to find that info on the school's website.
all the personnel — the teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school psychologist, the “reading specialist” — were female.
again, looking at the school's website, one of their 4th grade teachers is male.
fucking basis research, how does it work?
There didn’t even seem to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza’s knees.
Wasn't there also a male custodian who ran around yelling warnings and making sure doors were locked? Or does he not count because he made the ~feminized~ choice to make sure people were safe instead of grabbing a bucket and charging the gunman?
*barf*
Edited at 2012-12-20 02:57 am (UTC)
*headdesks repeatedly*
Is there a way to un-read it
Also, really, another post about what X stupid Republican said? Bleh.
(This piece is so gross, I literally feel morally bankrupt just reading it)
This lady needs to step into the real world.
....Okay, back.
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST SCURRILOUS PIECES OF SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN APPEAR IN PRINT.
"THE SCHOOL WAS TOO FUCKING FEMINIZED"??????? MEN DON'T TEACH PRIMARY SCHOOL BECAUSE WE TREAT AND PAY TEACHERS LIKE SHIT FOR THOSE GRADE LEVELS, BECAUSE THOSE JOBS ARE STIGMATIZED BECAUSE THEY ARE "WOMEN'S WORK", ETC ETC ETC, VICIOUS CYCLE.
"OLDER MALE STUDENTS SHOULD HAVE RUSHED THE SHOOTER"???????? EVERY STUDENT IN THE SCHOOL HAD ONE AND ONLY ONE PREROGATIVE IN THAT SITUATION: FUCKING SURVIVE. THEY ARE SCHOOLCHILDREN, THEIR RESPONSIBILITY IS TO BE SAFE AND FOLLOW THEIR TEACHERS' INSTRUCTIONS. THE TEACHERS HAD TWO PREROGATIVES: FIRST,TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR STUDENTS FUCKING SURVIVE. SECOND, TO FUCKING SURVIVE THEMSELVES. NOT ONE OF THEM DESERVES A MOMENT'S CENSURE FOR GETTING THEIR KIDS TO SAFETY AND TRUSTING THE POLICE TO DEAL WITH THE SHOOTER.
I HAVE BEEN THROUGH CIVILIAN RESPONSE TRAINING FOR ACTIVE SHOOTER SCENARIOS. YES, THEY DO TELL BYSTANDERS THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO FIGHT BACK IF YOU ARE CORNERED. BUT THEY TELL YOU TO TRY TO FLEE THE FUCKING BUILDING OR BARRICADE YOURSELF INTO A FUCKING SHELTERED PLACE FIRST, AND ONLY FIGHT IF YOU ARE ALREADY FUCKING CORNERED. OTHERWISE, YOU'RE JUST INCREASING YOUR CHANCES OF BECOMING A FUCKING CASUALTY.
I HOPE THE AUTHOR OF THIS OP-ED DIES IN A SWARM OF AFRICANIZED HONEYBEES.
The other thing that made me all hulksmash about it is that the reason men don't teach primary school is because they're then automatically assumed to be either gay and/or paedophiles. And you know what, that attitude is sustained by this very same group of people who are saying that the school was "feminized" (tbh I was genuinely surprised that the author didn't say 'feminazied' instead).
All the self-defence classes I've taken have always, always emphasised that your first line of defence is to run away and your second line of defence is to scream and yell for help at the top of your voice. You only fight back if have no means of escape.
My neighbour's son is 12. 12 is a fucking child, no matter how 'husky' they are. They would not be at fault for this (if they were actually there, this being a K-4 school) Neither are any of the astoundingly brave teachers/staff.
I hope this woman doesn't have children, because Christ.
I just... yeah. I'm agreeing with you. I just cry too much every time this whole situation even comes up.
Also, from the original article: "...if you are in a confined space, is throw things at the killer, or try a tackle. Remember United Flight 93 on 9/11. It was a “flight of heroes” because a bunch of guys on that plane did what they could with what they had." Because standing in the hallway throwing picture books would have helped this situation. And the hijackers on Flight 93 had knives, not guns, and were going up against adults who had realized that not doing anything would mean they would die, not children who had a chance as long as they stayed hidden.
I am so angry at this writer.
You mean... that same male aggression that was just used to shoot up a school and kill numerous children and no few adults?
errr... scuze me, I'm going to go read something that doesn't make my brain scream in agony from sheer illogic and stupidity...
But then again, this sounds like the history I heard from kids who napped during history. The ones who thought Laura Secord warned people against an attack and then opened an ice cream store. That caliber of historical 'learnding'.
I suppose that's a display of weakness to the writer.
I'm done.