What a chilling incident, but I can't say I'm surprised by the response offered by the feminist academic community. Feminism has long advanced that there are two simple rules to explain societal violence: 1) men and boys are violent; girls and women are their victims, and 2) in instances where girls or women are violent and their victims are male, see rule #1. I very much appreciate and admire Dr. Fiamengo's crusade to foster a more sophisticated and more honest discourse on the complex relationship between gender and violence. It's upsetting that feminism has sought to "empower" girls by shielding them from responsibility for their behavior. Any power gained by eluding responsibility for one's actions is fundamentally fraudulent.