How many massacres perpetrated by men against women will it take before we as a society, especially those of us who are men, work seriously to end men's violence?
Last night, news reports indicate that George Sodini murdered at least three women (Elizabeth Gannon, Heidi Overmier and Jody Billingsley) and injured nine other women at a fitness club near Pittsburgh, PA before shooting himself.
After the Montreal Massacre in which Marc Lepine murdered 14 women in 1989, Jane Caputi and Diana E. H. Russell wrote their article defining "femicide," the murdering of women by men, as a misogynist hate crime.
Activists in Canada and in more than 50 other countries responded to that crime to organize the White Ribbon Campaign: Men Working to End Violence Against Women, but it has not yet been nearly enough.