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| Murderer, Elliot Rodger |
The Santa Barbara student who shot and killed 7 people Friday night was part of the so-called “PUA Hate” community on the internet, dedicated to exposing the lies of Pick-Up Artist community (PUA), and misogynistic in its own right. Elliott Rodger wrote in a 140-page manifesto that he would “punish” women at a University of California, Santa Barbara, sorority house for not being attracted to him.
In response, a website popular with Pick-Up Artists is arguing that “six lives would have been saved” if there were a societal mechanism for men to learn “game” and “masculinity” and that “more people will die unless you give men sexual options.”
The Pick-Up Artist community purports to teach men how to have sex with women. The author of this post, RooshV, considers among his fundamental principles that “Women are sluts if they sleep around, but men are not” and that “A woman’s value is mainly determined by her fertility and beauty,” whereas “A man’s value is mainly determined by his resources, intellect, and character.”
While conceding that Rodgers was “undoubtedly mentally unstable,” RooshV suggests that “[h]e was not that much worse off than many socially awkward males who grew up isolated as teenagers” and that the pick-up artist community could have helped him “achieve intimacy” and thus avoid murder.
RooshV also blamed the “American media, the blogosphere, men’s rights activists, and progressive organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center,” for “creating a cultural environment that allowed this massacre to occur.” Therefore, “It is them (sic) who must accept responsibility for these seven deaths and make the moral change to their ideologies in order to prevent such an act from happening again.”
The post comes after a number of other Pick-Up Artist commenters suggested the shooting could have been prevented if he had been exposed to “game.” The website, Return of Kings, has long been a source of misogynist commentary that has baited feminists with its outrage.
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The kid had an out. There are legal brothels not to far over the Nevada border. He could have gotten laid. It was not about that. It was he was a spoiled brat who did not get his way and that in which he was entitled to and he acted out. Its pathetic
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