the horrid glory of its wings

[flaviomatani]

A reflection by matociquala, the fantastically talented SF writer Elizabeth Bear, after the shootings by that guy who, if he couldn't have the girls, he would just kill them:

http://matociquala.livejournal.com/2224624.html

Makes you think. Makes _me_ think, at any rate. Have I been that low-level predatory male? Not certainly, I hope, in the terms she puts it there, but probably in attitude, when I was young. There may be as much nature as nurture in those attitudes but that cannot be a justification; hey, civilisation should be about becoming better beings and rise above things like base animal urges. It often looks, however, as though civilisation is just a very thin veneer above the monkey, reptile or fish that we may once have been. I do believe in progress and it must be better now than fifty or five hundred or five thousand years ago, but it often looks so very slow.

Comments

[kruku.livejournal.com]

To be honest from what I read of any statements he made the shooter has a head full of toys. He is reported to call women whores or sluts because, as I understand it, they would not sleep with him. It doesn't make much sense but then crazy people rarely do^^