“Marc Lépine must have updated his list from the otherworld.” That sentence, written 10 years ago by a man on Twitter (now X), troubles me to this day.
There was nothing trivial about the statement. It came from someone whose ideological leanings are close to the incel movement — “involuntary celibates” — which is part of the wider masculinist movement.
He felt justified uttering these words after novelist Marie-Hélène Poitras and I published Les Superbes: une enquête sur le succès et les femmes (The Fabulous Ones: An Investigation into Success and Women). His message was clear: the women we had interviewed for this book deserved to be eliminated.
