By now most of us are familiar with the rough outline of what happened in Santa Barbara on Saturday, May 24, 2014: a deranged young man with a history of violence and hatred towards women killed 6 young women and himself, but not before leaving behind a manifesto declaring that he was going to punish these women for scorning his sexual advances.

In the wake of the tragedy, a new hashtag has appeared on Twitter, #YesAllWomen, in response to the recent phenomenon “Not All Men.” The phrase “Not all men” is a familiar one to most women: it’s the knee-jerk reaction many men have when we try to have conversations about sexism, misogyny, and discrimination and violence against women. “But not all men are like that!” our interlocutors might interject.