We need to talk about systemic male violence not the “work of a madman” Note: I will no longer be publishing any comments which erase Rodger’s responsibility for committing mass murder or want to pretend that misogyny doesn’t exist.
UPDATE: I wrote this when the media was reporting 6 women murdered by Rodger. The victims are as follows: Christopher Martinez (20) – confirmed by LA TimesKatherine Cooper (22) - New York Daily NewsVeronika Weiss (19) – New York Daily NewsCheng Yuan Hong ( 20) George Chen (19) Weihan Wang (20) I have left the post as written because this is still a case of misogyny and male entitlement. 6 women have been murdered* and 7 more injured in Santa Barbara in a drive by shooting late Friday night which is currently being attributed to a man called Elliot Rodger.** Rodger got into his car and proceeded to shoot to death 6 women and injure 7 other women.
Sheriff Bill Brown has already referred to this mass shooting as ““the work of a madman” and suggested that we will soon learn “how disturbed this individual was”. Let’s talk about the Men’s Rights Movement. Yesterday at work, I sat at my desk and watched on the muted TV as news unfolded about another shooting in America.
Seven people were dead, said the BBC news headline, including the shooter. Seven more people had been injured. The only things that really crossed my mind were “wow, another shooting?” And “I bet you anything that the shooter was a young, white male.” I had no idea that across the world, people were discovering that the shooter, now revealed to be 22-year-old student Elliot Rodger, was not only young, white, and male, but was also involved in a movement that all feminists detest and decry – the men’s rights movement. His internet history reveals a lot about him. He joined YouTube, where he was subscribed to several MRA channels as well as ones that gave advice on “how to be a pick up artist”, and in the space of 3 months had uploaded 21 videos, all of which consisted of rants about women and debates about why they didn’t like him.
Portrait du tueur en mec normal. Les Etats-Unis ont été frappé par une nouvelle tuerie, comme il s'en produit régulièrement depuis au moins 1999 et la tragédie de Columbine. .
Dans les jours et sans doute les semaines qui viennent, les portraits du tueur vont pulluler, tentant, par le récit biographique, de donner sens à son acte - le mouvement a d'ailleurs déjà commencé, et les tueries précédentes ont eu leur lot en la matière... Le risque de la biographie est toujours de sur-enchérir sur l'exceptionnalité de l'individu ou de son acte. En bon adepte de la micro-histoire, je suis plus tenté d'utiliser les parcours individuels, aussi exceptionnels qu'ils paraissent, pour partir à la recherche de la normalité.
Eliot Rodger a laissé une vidéo qui explique son geste. "Ce n'est pas juste. On peut en dire tout autant de ces fusillades et tueries qui émaillent l'histoire récente des Etats-Unis. Cette haine des femmes n'a rien d'exceptionnelle : elle est au contraire extrêmement banale. C’est l’histoire d’un tueur misogyne qui n’intéressait personne… … à part les féministes (qu’est-ce qu’elles nous emmerdent celles-là).
L’histoire se passe en Californie. Elliot Rodger, 22 ans, a tué le 24 mai 6 personnes et blessé au moins treize autres avant de se suicider. Un détail intéresse beaucoup la presse: il est le fils du réalisateur Peter Rodger, qui a participé au film Hunger Games. Elliot Rodger's California shooting spree: further proof that misogyny kills. We should know this by now, but it bears repeating: misogyny kills.
On Friday night, a man – identified by police as Elliot Rodgers – allegedly seeking "retribution" against women whom he said sexually rejected him went on a killing spree in Isla Vista, California, killing six people and sending seven more to the hospital with serious gunshot injuries. Elliot Rodger Written Manifesto My Twisted World. Those following the developments in Friday evening’s UCSB shootings are aware of the suspected perpetrator Elliot Rodger‘s frightening YouTube manifesto, describing his bitterness towards women and the men who are able to find a mate.
As it turns out, he had also written a 141-page manifesto that lays out his grievances in painstaking detail, describing stories from his childhood onward that seemed to have laid the foundation for his anger towards women, “alpha males,” and society in general. Titled “My Twisted World,” the lengthy document describes his plans for a “Day of Retribution,” on which: “All of those beautiful girls I’ve desired so much in my life, but can never have because they despise and loathe me, I will destroy.”
He described discovering masturbation and the loneliness that came with an increased sex drive: I developed a very high sex drive, and it would always remain like this. This was the start of hell for me. ELLIOT RODGER: MORE THAN A MADMAN. Male entitlement begets male entitlement: On Elliot Rodger, misogyny, and the sex industry. As most of us are now aware, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger, son of Hollywood producer Peter Rodger, went on a shooting rampage on Friday night, killing six people and sending seven more to the hospital.
Rodger was very clear about the reasoning behind his violence. In a video posted online before the shooting, he says: For the last eight years of my life, ever since I hit puberty, I’ve been forced to endure an existence of loneliness, rejection and unfulfilled desires. All because girls have never been attracted to me. Girls gave their affection and sex and love to other men, but never to me. This is male entitlement. But what about the men? On masculinity and mass shootings. “But what about the men?”
It’s a question that’s been largely avoided by the mainstream within the context of mass shootings. The recent tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut sparked thousands of conversations across the continent about gun laws, mental illness, and violence. And sadly, we’ve been here before. We’ve had conversations about access to guns – the victims would still be alive today, after all, if there were no gun.
We’ve talked about the need to better address mental illness in North America – about how people need access to services and treatment. All these factors are relevant. In 1984, a 39-year-old man opened fire at an upscale nightclub in Dallas after a woman rejected his aggressive sexual advances.