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boston bean

(36,532 posts) Sat May 24, 2014, 08:44 AM May 2014

Hatred for women, believed to be motive for last night CA mass shooting [View all]

http://www.independent.com/news/2014/may/23/shooting-isla-vista/

In a YouTube video titled “Elliot Rodger’s Retribution” and posted the day before the shooting, Rodger — a Santa Barbara City College Student and Isla Vista resident, according to his social media accounts — laments his life of “loneliness, rejection, and unfulfilled desires.” He blames women for throwing themselves at “obnoxious brutes” but rejecting him, “the supreme gentlemen.”

Alleged suspects retribution posted at above link.

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Hatred for women, believed to be motive for last night CA mass shooting [View all] boston bean May 2014 OP

Yes, because going on a shooting spree is the epitome of gentlemanliness. KitSileya May 2014 #1

His video sounded a lot like what reading the Mens Rights websites. boston bean May 2014 #2

Yes, because to Nice Guys (tm), women aren't persons with desires of their own. KitSileya May 2014 #3

That and the fact that he would "punish" the women for rejecting him. Don't forget the Squinch May 2014 #15

Isn't this the same motivation for the "corrective rape" of lesbians? theHandpuppet May 2014 #19

And all of it boils back to Squinch May 2014 #22

Yep, right down to the "nice guy" meme BainsBane May 2014 #21

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/24/1301671/-Elliot-Roger-Gunman-in-California-Mass-Shooting-wa LiberalLoner May 2014 #4

yeah this transcript of that video boston bean May 2014 #5

Gentleman? Yeah...kill six people because WhiteTara May 2014 #6

Oh my God ismnotwasm May 2014 #7

He couldn't get hot blondes, so they had to be anihilated. boston bean May 2014 #8

We always question and debate the motives of the latest killers, but the one inconvenient truth, FailureToCommunicate May 2014 #9

google him ellennelle May 2014 #10

what a spoiled, narcissistic, pompous little sociopath magical thyme May 2014 #11

and the comments are just as vile- asking why didn't he just rape a slut? WTFingF? bettyellen May 2014 #12

you hear this crap about "stuck up women" who "should" be with X, like women should not have choice bettyellen May 2014 #13

From Skepchick ismnotwasm May 2014 #14

There already appears to be some effort to blame Aspergers sydrome. Though I have seen nothing Squinch May 2014 #16

FFS ismnotwasm May 2014 #17

I know a lot of people with it. I almost never see malice in them. Much less often than in so-called Squinch May 2014 #20

Same here theHandpuppet May 2014 #23

BUt I haven't even seen anything official that says he has any such diagnosis. I might have missed Squinch May 2014 #24

It was in one of the news reports theHandpuppet May 2014 #27

No, don't go searching. Thanks for telling me that. Squinch May 2014 #28

the psycho-killer vibe isn't an appealing one BainsBane May 2014 #18

I would think that the women he approached could easiky Flatulo May 2014 #29

The desire to hurt others is a serious problem in this country IronLionZion May 2014 #25

OMFG. Another SMFR* with a pathological sense of entitlement DinahMoeHum May 2014 #26

No reason for flames I can see. You're spot on. n/t nomorenomore08 May 2014 #30

You won't get flames from me, that's for sure. AverageJoe90 May 2014 #31