betty rose, who i do not know but have friends in common with, writes in her livejournal about the recent shootings that have happened in schools.

the kid who went into the school in wisconsin and shot his principal is a different class of offender and it's a different class of offense than the adult male pedophiles who invaded schools recently because they knew that that was where there was an already rounded up supply of their favorite victims.

betty rose mentions in her post, and i feel the same way, i understood columbine. i thought it was sad and awful and wrong, and that it was a wonder that it hadn't happened sooner, and in more places, and i knew something about what had driven those two kids to do just that. (i do not mean to imply that high school was incredibly awful for me. because it wasn't. i could go on, but this isn't about me.)

these recent school invasions are gender based hate crimes. they are related to the montreal shooting so much more than to columbine.

dbubley: Recent Shootings in School NOT School Shootings

Oh, these poor, poor pedophiles, who probably don't realize that the statue of limitation has run out on their youth. Maybe they see themselves as Harris or Klebold and expect the world to view them as such. Not such a great view, really. Only it's a much uglier picture, and they've become much uglier men. School shootings my ass. They're grown men who prey on children, girls in these two cases. Girls most of the time. I'm not forgetting boys. I wonder if they would have ever been mislabeled "school shootings" if they'd gone in and rounded up and sexually molested boys?

(thanks to body impolitic for the pointer.)