French police have detained 12 suspects after 145 people reported being pricked with syringes during the country’s annual street music festival, officials said Sunday.
Millions of people took to the streets across France on Saturday evening for the Fete de la Musique, with authorities reporting “unprecedented crowds” in Paris.
Before the party, posts on social media had called for women to be targeted during the festivities.
When your takeaway from every bad thing that happens is “can i blame exclusively men?” You are already treading very close to that bigoted rhetoric.
I get that it’s a frustrating accusation, but as a man I recognise it as generally true, even if I don’t resonate with it. Women rarely commit mass shootings, rapes, stabbings, forced drugging, muggings. The people causing trouble in my neighbourhood are exclusive male teenagers and the only genuine threat to me ever is by other men. And no, it’s of course not an inherent feature in male genetics, nor is it anything close to “all men”, but it’s a cultural issue based on how we’re raised and it should be fair game to discuss it - although with a better tone than what’s normally applied.
That’s a reach.
Either way, sounds like the suspects are boys. Go cry about it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/23/france-syringe-attacks-street-music-festival-fete-de-la-musique
Yeah that’s usually what terfs say when you call them out.
You’re just trying to make people think badly about trans people. I don’t believe you’re being genuine.
Please explain to me how pointing out the perps are men does anything besides fuel bigotry.
What is a policy we would then enact that would effect exclusively men that magically fixes the issue, which would justify the bigotry?
What are you even on about? Policy? Just raise boys better and put an end to red pill terrorism.
You love men. I get it. Go hold a sign that says, “save men!”
You are incapable of understanding your own bigotry because you have normalized it.
There’s no way to raise men in a way that sheilds them from the social pressures of toxic masculinity.
Blaming individuals or an entire gender for systemic issues will always be a malicious and fruitless waste of time and energy.
This comment is what a red pill, maga-loving troglodyte who hates progress and equality would say. This comment sounds like somebody who doesn’t know what terf’s are and would definitely use the term out of context while masquerading online as somebody with an ounce of intelligence.
I’m so perplexed by this. Calling somebody a terf in a situation when it doesn’t make any sense to even use the word.
I feel like this is some sort of anti-trans social engineering.