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exhausted all my financial means, even refusing jobs) but for political reasons. For I have decided to send the feminists who have ruined my life to their maker.
It has been seven years that life does not bring me any joy and being totally blasé, I have decided to put an end to those viragos.
I had already tried as a youth to enlist in the [Armed] Forces as an officer cadet, which would have allowed me to enter the arsenal and precede Lortie in a rampage. They refused me because of asociality.
So I waited until this day to carry out all my projects. In between, I continued my studies in a haphazard way for they never really interested me, knowing in advance my fate. Which did not prevent me from obtaining very good marks despite not handing in my theory assignments and studying little before exams.
Even though the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media, I consider myself a rational and erudite person that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to undertake extreme acts.
For why persevere in existing if it is only to please the government? Being a backwards-looking thinker by nature (except for science), I have always been enraged by feminists.
They want to retain the advantages of being women (e.g., cheaper insurance, extended maternity leave preceded by a preventive leave) while trying to grab those of the men.
Thus, it is self-evident that if the Olympic Games removed the Men/Women distinction, there would only be women in the graceful events. So the feminists are not fighting to remove that barrier.
They are so opportunistic that they [never] neglect to profit from the knowledge accumulated by men throughout the ages. They always try to misrepresent them every time they can.
Thus, the other day, people were honouring the Canadian men and women who fought at the frontlines during the world wars. How does this sit with the fact that women were not authorized to go to the frontline at the time??? Will we hear of Caesar’s female legions and female galley slaves who of course took up 50 per cent of history’s ranks, although they never existed? A real Casus Belli.
Sorry for this too brief letter.
Marc Lépine
Annex
[Nineteen women’s names, including the six police officers he’d identified in the media] nearly died today. The lack of time (because I started too late) has allowed those radical feminists to survive.
Alea Jacta EST . [24]
    Besides Lépine’s obvious misogyny, several subtler themes are evident. In the first half of the letter, he is obsessed with convincing society that he is a martyr instead of a failure (see text in bold ). Yet he betrays himself by admitting that he was unable to realize the full extent of his mission because he “started too late.” Taking into account the brevity of the letter, there is also an abundance of references to the military, warfare, and Rome, including Latin terms (see text in italics ). It is interesting to note that Lépine’s historical references seem to focus solely on military aspects, reinforcing the idea that he was enamoured with violence. There are also fatalistic overtones (underlined), as if he viewed his actions and personal situation as being totally out of his control. Lépine wrote that he was “forced” to kill because the “world doesn’t bring [him] any joy.” Instead of taking the time to prepare the perfect suicide note during his alleged years of planning, he lamented that he “only had fifteen minutes to write this,” as if he were lacking agency altogether.
    Where the massacre certainly brought attention to the issue of misogyny in Canadian society, the origins of Marc Lépine’s contempt have rarely been discussed beyond the simplistic “like father, like son” argument. Lépine’s hatred of women resulted from a variety of individual experiences, which were shaped by a major personality disorder. Rachid Gharbi beat and dominated his wife, but to say that Lépine emulated his father would be to ignore the fact