the definition of terrorism—if the demographic in question is women. The man is just “disturbed,” “deranged,” a “lone wolf.” We use language that designates him an outlier, an aberration. We do not call his online journey a “radicalization” or use the word extremism to label the online communities in which he has immersed himself, though we would reach for those words in an instant when describing other, similar types of crimes, committed by other, different types of men. We do not examine what led him to commit those acts or how he became so full of hate.
