(2014)What Elliot Rodger Said About Women Reveals Why We Need to Stamp Out Misogyny (Fetch a pail)

PolicyMic ^ | May 24, 2014 | Elizabeth Plank

[Billthedrill]

I read Rodger's ramblings when first they were published. This was a severely disturbed individual from an age where even the manifestation of that sort of problem is rare. To draw any broad conclusions about the rest of society from his meticulous description of his own oppression, almost entirely imaginary, is to lean on a very slender reed indeed. The author has a case to make and is grotesquely unscrupulous about her evidence.

There are more precise professional terms used these days, but "paranoid schizophrenia" will do for a lay discussion. This guy had it all: delusions of grandeur, delusions of persecution, a decade of medication he had begun refusing to take when he turned 18, parents/guardians in denial, and a truly remarkable ability to seem normal in casual conversation until the worms began crawling out of his brain. He killed his roommates with a knife while they were sleeping before embarking on his murder mission. They had done nothing whatever to him.

His was, to be sure, a corner case, and "the System" nearly stopped him. He could not purchase firearms in California, for example, or in neighboring Nevada, and so had to drive three states before he found a source willing to sell to him. He was reported to the police by two therapists, a psychologist and a psychiatrist, as a potentially dangerous and violent individual mere hours before he went on his rampage. So close. What is less forgivable is the length of time his condition was hidden, minimized, rationalized off, forgiven. The people who did so regret it bitterly now but the relatives of his victims regret it a lot more.

[Albion Wilde]

Because you posted to an earlier thread about this shooting and/or its aftermath re the 2nd Amendment. Don’t worry, it’s a one-time ping.

[Albion Wilde]

Thanks for your post. I also read the manifesto and was so saddened by it, and left a long comment upthread. He was so badly, badly handled by his parents and ostensible mental health caregivers.

However, I had pinged you today to give you the link to the very riveting follow-up story in today's DailyMail about the survivors. For them, it will never be over.

[lee martell]

I’m waiting for his father to make a documentary film about his son and the murders. Mr.Rodgers will justify it by saying he wanted the real story told correctly, and could find no other director trustworthy.
I can only imagine Elliott’s parents and siblings will need some manner of ongoing therapy. Some may choose to change their names.

[M-cubed]

This mixed race killer’s hatred was focused on not just white women, but “blond” white women.<<

Tiger Woods had no comment..../s

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Could you please copy the post and send it to me? I have no recollection of posting anything with regard to it. I went back and looked and found nothing.

[berdie]

Thanks for the update and the ping.

Ya know it’s a sad commentary on our times when something of this magnitude happens and one has to search one’s memory for the details of what this particular nut did only a year after the event.

[Albion Wilde]

Could you please copy the post and send it to me? I have no recollection of posting anything with regard to it. I went back and looked and found nothing.

Go to post 48. See the lettering that begins "EXCLUSIVE..." — it is a different color from the rest. That means it is a hyperlink. Click on it, and it will open the story. I linked it again within the text in my second post to you.

[Albion Wilde]

Ya know it’s a sad commentary on our times when something of this magnitude happens and one has to search one’s memory for the details of what this particular nut did only a year after the event.

Evil is hitting out full bore. We have to try not to get numb.