Is it even possible to reduce this phenomenon, or condition, or whatever it is, to the lexicons of clinical, medical terminology? As a way of describing the thing, if not defining it, “misogyny” seems to approach a high degree of precision. “Patriarchy,” even, which is also a very real thing, can be said to be at least tangentially related. But these terms merely describe the thing that 25-year-old Alek Minassian alluded to in what Toronto police Det.-Sgt. Getting this straight is not easy, and the Criminal Code provisions on terrorism will not help you to comprehend what occurred in Toronto on Monday.

Source: National Post April 25, 2018 16:42 UTC