I've been reading Elliot Rodger's 140 page manifesto/life story whatever. I'm studying psych and yeah, I'll admit it, psychopaths fascinate me. I'm a writer too, and it's a thrill to get inside the head of someone monumentally fucked up.

It's disturbing but one of the things that I think needs to be absolutely stressed- and is in strict opposition to all the men commenting on articles and reports on his murders, that he's mentally ill and therefore cannot be linked to 'real men', or 'the rest of men'.

See, his story doesn't read like that. To be honest, it reads just like some other people I've known. Lonely kid, shy, socially awkward, physically weak/ unattractive, separates people into 'cool' and 'uncool', and believes that cool kids are by nature, mean and unfriendly.

Like, I can even identify with some of that, any kid that has felt excluded or bullied can.

But this kid is also kind of an asshole, not that he realises. He's envious of his 'friends' and has delusions of grandeur, every person he dislikes is his 'mortal enemy' etc etc. He isn't happy when his friends succeed, he's just jealous. He's a really ecocentric little shit actually, he really thinks the world revolves around him.

He thinks he's more intelligent than anyone else anyway so he isn't interested in making friends, and all the friends he used to try to make by just acting like the 'cool' kids of each group just meant that he was always only kind of part of each group. Then once he stops thinking about his social life, it drops off totally, he's complaining endlessly about this but does nothing about it, just keeps gaming and saying he's super lonely.

He's in his teens by this point, believes all this BS about sex, he blows up tiny interactions with girls into these huge emotional life scars, and then calls the girl an evil bitch, and runs away. He made his parents send him to an all boys school, then when that didn't work, a public school, then an independent half homeschooling deal, so he had no friends and all day to play WoW.

It just pisses me off so badly. You aren't entitled to sex just for existing. It's just not how it works. You aren't entitled to relationships either. And his whole attitude-- the fact that people are passing this off as an isolated incident are delusional. You know where this kid got his support and his ideas (apart from just the whole world in general?) Places like Reddit and PUA sites and all that other BS.

Like, I look at that stuff for a laugh sometimes. Like porn, it's like 50% fascinating and 50% horrifying. After events like this, it's much more horrifying than fascinating. Facts are that most people that lurk on those sites are misogynistic, fedeora wearing, douchebags who refer to women as 'females' and pretend they are a different species who's thoughts and desires are really not equal to that of the dude trying to pick her up.

Okay, here's the bit where men start to comment 'NOT ALL MEN'.

No, not all men. Just too fucking many. I just checked out Reddit, interested to see if any of them were self aware enough to connect what they were doing on the page to the shooting. No go, but I saw a link "How to deal with 'Alpha' and 'forward' girls? Always feel like I'm being looked down on"

It's just bullshit. Like, the whole point of pick up is to make men into 'alphas' or whatever, and to be more forward, but these traits they admire and struggle to obtain, they can't deal with in women? Oh God, and the comments. So, PUA have this theory, I can't remember what it's called, but the idea that there is so many women out there, there' always more fish in the sea, you don't get caught up with one. Which isn't a bad idea, and the people who behave according to that, fine. But these comments were so hypocritical, saying that you shouldn't go for forward girls because if they are propositioning you like that, they don't see you as an individual, they'd go for anyone, they don't respect themselves etc etc. It's just bullshit.

Seriously, quoted. "Forward girls present a HUGE red flag for me. You can assume that you're not special, and therefore they do this shit with lots of other guys, take that for what its worth. Further, there is ZERO chance for anything more than a meaningless fuck, because they won't think they deserve it, and if thats your thing, then have it, but personally I have no respect for a girl who lowers her draw bridge and invites me in without question. You have to ask yourself how much self worth a girl like that has, and how much that's worth to you."

Here's a quote of my own. If you think of a girl as dirty after you touch her, maybe you should have a look at your own fucking hands.

Just like the fucking shooter did, blaming girls for choosing to have sex with who they want, especially when it isn't you and come on, if you are on Reddit, it most likely is not you. All those you tube comments, that some girl should have just pity fucked him, and all them comments that said 'this is what happens when you friendzone someone', they. are. threats. They are saying, fuck us when we tell you to or we might murder you. This is not a joke, it cannot be taken lightly.

Misogyny kills, that's just a goddamn fact and we get more and more evidence every day.