It's December 6, and casual misogyny abounds

Reblogged from niftynotcool:

This morning Canadians on Facebook and Twitter have been calling on us to remember the 14 female engineering students whose lives were taken by a gunman on December 6, 1989, and to pledge that violence against women will stop.

I was particularly taken with this address made by NDP MP Megan Leslie in 2008 and shared on Twitter today. Leslie said, "We live in a culture of casual misogyny...And we don’t do enough to fight it."

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