File under: “horrendous act of violence by young man”

A male student stabbed a female student at UCLA (my school, the building across from mine) today. He stabbed her in her THROAT. (WTF to the power of infinity). I remember hearing about a woman getting shot by a man at UC-Irvine a while back, and another instance of a man cutting a woman’s throat on another school campus.

This is violence against a woman perpetrated by a young man. As feminists have repeatedly emphasized, we need a modification in the definition of masculinity in our cultures, a redefinition that excludes violence as a positive masculine trait.

This video of Jackson Katz is always good to see at moments like this.

ps. I don’t know why in the news excerpt at UCLA’s website there is no indication of the victim’s gender. Is that positive, negative, or neutral?