The recognition of misogyny as a motivating ideology for far-right mobilisation and acts of mass violence has been slow to evolve. Even as there has been a growth in attention to far-right movements and parties in Europe and the United States, this has primarily focused on racist and xenophobic ideology. Since 2018, however, this has begun to change.

When the news broke on November 2, that a male shooter had killed two women at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, the Collier Township gym shooter immediately came to my mind. A middle-aged White man who shot and killed three women at a fitness class in Pennsylvania in 2009, he had angrily lamented going years without sexual intercourse and blamed all “30 million…desirable single women” that he estimated existed in the United States for rejecting him.