GOP Senate challenger: Mass shootings linked to women in workplace [View all]

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By Travis Gettys
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 13:39 EDT

GOP Senate challenger: Mass shootings linked to women in workplace

A former New Hampshire state senator who’s announcing his candidacy to unseat Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen says women in the workplace are at least partially to blame for mass shootings and other violence by men.

“Bottom line: the collaborative, flexible, amorphously-hierarchical American economy is shutting out ordinary men who were once the nation’s breadwinners in living-wage labor and manufacturing jobs,” wrote former state Sen. Jim Rubens in a 2009 blog post.

The original post, which is now protected behind a firewall, argues that this loss of status had provoked violence in men.


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