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. I’m 22-years-old and still a virgin. I’ve never even kissed a girl. I’ve been through college, for two and a half years, more than that actually, and I’m still a virgin. It has been very torturous.
College is the time when everyone experiences those things such as sex and fun and pleasure. But in those years I’ve had to rot in loneliness. It’s not fair. You girls have never been attracted to me. I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted to me. But I will punish you all for it. It’s an injustice, a crime because I don’t know what you don’t see in me.
This is male entitlement. You’re looking at it.
Rodger was so enraged that he had not been given that which he deserves, as a man — sexual access to women — that he killed.
In a world wherein men learn they not only deserve, but have the right to women’s bodies, Rodger’s behaviour isn’t really all that surprising. From the time they are young, boys are offered women’s bodies. They are provided with pornography, told that this is what women are for: your eyes, your pleasure, your dick. Read more.
As published in Feminist Current.
May 27th, 2014 at 4:47 pm
WOW. The argument that this man’s acts of violence could have been prevented if only he had sexual access to women’s bodies? Are people serious? Is men’s entitlement to women’s bodies so strong and so internalised that our first thought is “if only women had slept with him” and not “if only this guy didn’t have such an entitlement to women that he thought murder was an appropriate punishment for refusing him?” A man, motivated by his intense hatred of women, goes on a killing spree, and people are genuinely suggesting that maybe women should have just catered to his sexual entitlement? Does it really need to be said that the responsibility for men’s violence falls on men, and not women?
The shooter in the Aurora movie theatre last year was known to buy prostituted women. He had a reputation for being violent with them. It didn’t stop him from going on a killing spree. The idea that buying a woman for sex somehow solves men’s entitlement is completely backwards. It only reinforces the notion that men are entitled to sex and someone must provide it.
May 27th, 2014 at 6:16 pm
Yet still men and their malestream media deliberately hide the facts concerning male women-hater Eliot Rodger.
The same old same old male lies are being reported as factual truths because men have to ensure the real facts concerning why innumerable males commit male violence against women and girls must not be publicly stated.
Rodgers made the choice and he enacted his agency – he was not mentally ill but that is a common male excuse/justification for committing violence and all too often lethal violence against women and girls.
Rodgers according to mens’ Male Supremacist System was merely enacting his (pseudo) male sex right to female bodies and because these supposedly non-human female robots (sic) refused to submit to his rightful male sexual demands; Rodgers had the right to punish them by murdering women!
Don’t expect men and their malestream media to publish the truth concerning yet another mundane ordinary white male who made the choice to murder women because these women’s sex is female.