Natalie Samantha Rupnow wasn’t your typical school shooter. At 15 years old, she walked into Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, with two guns and left behind a trail of carnage: two dead, six injured, and her own life ended in what can only be described as a tragic cocktail of hate and delusion. If you’ve never heard of a "femcel," consider yourself lucky, but buckle up and get ready for a twisted vocabulary lesson. Rupnow’s story is drenched in online subcultures where leftist feminist hate meets racial supremacy in one toxic brew, the kind that only leftist Reddits and Tiktoks in their worst form can serve up.
Let’s call this mindset what it is: the woke mind virus. This is clearly the result of the unchecked radicalization factory that thrives on Reddit and Tiktok. These are perfect breeding grounds for ideologies that celebrate victimhood, vilify men, and now, apparently, embrace violence as some twisted form of empowerment. Rupnow wasn’t a tragic anomaly; she was a ticking time bomb groomed by these extremist communities. If Tiktok is ultimately banned after the Supreme Court hears their case, even free speech advocates like myself will say good riddance to bad rubbish.
Rupnow’s alleged manifesto, ominously titled "War Against Humanity," is a predictably unhinged rant against men, society, and pretty much anyone she perceived as part of the "patriarchy." She styled herself a warrior for the cause, promising to eradicate male dominance, a call that mirrored the rhetoric of the most toxic radical feminist hate groups. You know the type, the ones that bleed hatred of men over into racial hatred.
Vocab time! Femcels, as they’re known, are what happens when leftist feminism mutates into a hate cult. A mirror opposite of incels that have received lots of scrutiny in the press, and you can find pages and pages of search results. The NIH is only just now starting to look into the mindset of these bastard love children of Shaun King and AOC. These aren’t women seeking equality, no, that fight ended years ago. Now the left is focused on building an army of bitter soldiers in their war against men, society, and anyone they envy. It’s all about blame. Blame men. Blame beauty standards. Blame the “patriarchy.” Never look in the mirror (unless you’re taking a selfie). That would require accountability, something the woke mindset avoids like sunlight.
Their lingo is vile and self-pitying, like our next vocab lesson. “FOID” means “femoid,” a sneering term for women who aren’t miserable enough. “MOID” stands for “male humanoid.” It’s a way to reduce men to robotic trash in their warped hierarchy of hate. “Women are the only hope for this wretched world,” she supposedly wrote. “But even women have been brainwashed by moids for too long theyve internalized the patriarchy and turned on each other, always begging for for male approval and validation. Its disgusting. I realize the truth men are iredeemable.” If men are irredeemable, her solution was to outdo them in cruelty, proving that wokeness doesn’t shatter glass ceilings, it digs graves.
The woke left has primed these communities. Modern feminism tells women they’re eternal victims. If men are the enemy, then anything is justified. Hate becomes strength. Misandry becomes justice. Violence becomes revolution. This is feminism’s Frankenstein monster. Instead of equality, it’s breeding nihilism. It leads to Rupnows just as much as it leads to Mangiones and Klebolds. We have to kill it with fire, metaphorically speaking.
Woke ideology rewards resentment. It teaches that failure is society’s fault. Men are to blame. Standards are oppressive. Where femcels gather online they’re all competing in hate filled, racist woke-olympics. They feed each other's anger. They stoke one another’s envy. They turn pain into hatred and now that hatred into action. The Reddit page /r/psychologyofsex describes femcels as “the feminine version of incels.. minus the violence.” Ironic.
Despite her rarity, Natalie Rupnow isn’t unique. She’s only one of many products of these toxic ideas. She absorbed the woke poison and acted on it. Her online life shows the blueprint. Hate for men. Rage against society. A belief that her suffering made her righteous. It was inevitable. If the straight up admiration for watching people die wasn’t enough of a clue, then her fascination with school shooters might have been.
It’s confirmed that Rupnow’s admiration for past killers like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were openly known. She was photographed wearing a KMFDM shirt, just like Harris did during Columbine, She also consumed content glorifying death and destruction on websites like "Watch People Die." She expressed admiration for Pekka Eric Auvinen, the 18-year-old responsible for the 2007 Jokela school shooting in Finland, where eight people were killed. Rupnow referenced Auvinen in her alleged manifesto, indicating a deep-seated obsession with individuals who committed similar acts of violence. A Tumblr account linked to her featured images related to the Parkland shooter, Nikolas Cruz, and posts referencing the 2007 Jokela school shooting. Rupnow was building a twisted hall of fame, determined to add her name to the sick legacy of violence she idolized.
Oh, and let’s not forget the racism, because the woke mind virus doesn’t discriminate in its quest for hatred. Why should anyone be surprised that the group of people in American societies who think blacks are too stupid to be able to get government IDs to vote would cast even darker shadows across society? Her TikTok account was flagged for openly racist content, with bios using coded language like “TND” (Total N-word Death) that’s straight out of a white supremacist’s playbook. She used the same account to engage with videos promoting violence and white supremacy, while claiming the woke mantle of “justice.” Other purported online writings of Rupnow indicated her special hatred for black men.
Rupnow didn’t just hate men (black men especially); she hated everyone she deemed as part of an unjust world. This isn’t your grandmother’s feminism. This isn’t Gloria Steinem “break the glass ceiling” feminism. This is woke, weaponized hatred that thrives in online cesspools like Reddit where ideologies like these go unchecked under the guise of “progressivism.”
Authorities are also digging into her connection with Alexander Paffendorf, a 20-year-old in California who was plotting his own attack on a government building. Their conversations appear to show they had a sick kind of camaraderie. These are the alliances that form when hate goes unchallenged online, feeding off the worst instincts of people who should never have access to this kind of encouragement.
The woke mind virus has a body count now, and it’s not just Natalie Rupnow’s victims. It’s anyone who believes these ideologies are just harmless online chatter.
This isn’t new, but it’s getting worse. Rupnow’s case is proof that when you let the woke mind virus run free, it doesn’t just destroy the infected—it takes out everyone in its path.
