In The Fourteen Not Forgotten and Sexist Posters at Waterloo,
Christine Cheng discusses a misogynist activist at the
University of Waterloo who put up fourteen posters last month
(February 2011) vilifying scientist Marie Curie and women in
general. (Her post is also cross-posted at the Geek Feminism
Blog.) The incident reminds many of us of the École
Polytechnique Massacre. Both the University of Waterloo and
l’École Polytechnique de Montréal focus on STEM (Science,
Technology, Math, and Engineering) fields, and female students
are a minority. Both schools are located in Canada. Both
misogynists appear to be angry that women are attending
university and are being educated in male-dominated fields. The
Marie-Curie-hating misogynist at Waterloo has also sent out a
misogynist e-mail pretending to be the university’s president,
and has created a Facebook page with similar misogynist
rantings. The university’s Women’s Centre and LGBT student
centre have closed due to safety concerns. A male undergraduate
at the Un