Found Safe New Zealand - Tom Phillips, 34, shot/deceased; his 3 children who were with him found alive

[MelmothTheLost]

Yeah, I think the DM article, as much as I hate to say it, sums up what a lot of us are feeling. JMO

I’d be really interested to know what local chatter is like now. Are people still holding to their support for him, or is sentiment starting to turn? Or maybe people just quietly backing away?

I would be surprised if local support for him was general, and suspect that it was probably from a relatively small number of incel-type "men's rights activists".

 

[19thcenturynovel]

Worth a read:

Tom Phillips and the mythologising of the ‘good Kiwi bloke’

 

[Megnut]

I sure hope no one is glamourizing or romanticizing what he did. He was no pioneer, laboring to tame the frontier. He stole the children away from their mother and life as they knew it. Relatives, friend's, school, health care, doctor and dentist appointments...

Harsh conditions, resorting to theft, armed and dangerous, so not okay.

Traumatizing.

JMO

 

[MelmothTheLost]

I sure hope no one is glamourizing or romanticizing what he did. He was no pioneer, laboring to tame the frontier. He stole the children away from their mother and life as they knew it. Relatives, friend's, school, health care, doctor and dentist appointments...

Harsh conditions, resorting to theft, armed and dangerous, so not okay.

Traumatizing.

JMO

I would hazard a guess that those glamourising what he did are all men of a chauvinistic and misogynistic bent.

 

[Cascadia Mount]

I would hazard a guess that those glamourising what he did are all men of a chauvinistic and misogynistic bent.

Yes, the New Zealand version of Incels