Elliott Rodger, Angry Gay Gone Wild?
The answer to the random, crazed murders committed by €the kissless virgin€ Elliott Rodger last Friday in Isla Vista just might be that he was in the homosexual closet and didn't realize it.
In a typically-venomous reaction to that hypothesis, Slate.com's Mark Joesph Stern, who specializes in articles ripping alleged homophobes, reviled noted psychotherapist Dr. Robi Ludwig for €spinning out a novel theory of the murderer's motives€ on Fox News.
Stern went on to fume, €It is perfectly reasonable to react to this bizarre conjecture with outrage and disgust. Ample evidence had, by that point, already illustrated that the shootings were committed by a man who craved sex with women but couldn't obtain it. Ludwig's claim, then, is totally baseless, leaving us to wonder whether her comments were motivated less by professional expertise than by anti-gay animus.€
Dr. Ludwig's outrageous and disgusting theory was far less vitriolic and far more objectively analytical than Stern's: €When I was first listening to him, I was like, €Oh, he's angry with women for rejecting him.' And then I started to have a different idea: Is this somebody who is trying to fight against his homosexual impulses? Was he angry with women because they were taking away men from him?€
Unlike Stern and Ludwig, I wouldn't presume to analyze poor Elliott's psyche since anything he said or wrote in his €manifesto€ and elsewhere must be taken in the context of a madman, although his murderous anger was all but palpable. That palpability is impossible to explain based simply on his failure to ever have sex, a girlfriend, or even a kiss by a girl over the course of his twenty-two years.
Considering America's hyper-sexual culture and especially considering that hook-ups, a euphemism for the bed-hopping that seems to be endemic on college campuses today, why couldn't an attractive, albeit effeminate-looking, kid who drove a luxury Beemer score or, at the very least, find a girl to date and give him a goodnight kiss?
Indeed, Elliott had innumerable reasons to be pissed at the world, none of which would account for a normal individual randomly slaughtering six innocent people, including repeatedly knifing to death his three male roommates, and wounding more than a dozen others.
The son of photographer-Hollywood director, Peter Rodger, and certainly financially comfortable, Elliott had a long history of mental illness.
In therapy since he was eight years old, he had stopped taking his medication, he apparently despised his step-mother, and subscribed to the extreme leftist €Young Turks€ YouTube channel. His mental state was no doubt exacerbated by trauma over his parents' divorce, his various run-ins with the police, having to deal with his father's penchant for selling naked images of women, and his own unrequited pining for beautiful girls.
Of course, none of that proves Dr. Ludwig's theory that Elliott Rodger was a latent homosexual but it should be remembered that the Connecticut state's attorney report on the horrendous murders at the Sandy Hook Elementary School by Adam Lanza found no €conclusive motive€ for his actions but did document unsettling facts about Lanza. Those facts included computer files he kept on the rights of pedophiles, a movie about man/boy love, instant messages concerning €homosexual fantasies,€ and numerous documents concerning mass murders.
Pending a full investigation, those findings on the Sandy Hook maniac may parallel the Isla Vista murderer's but, if they do, we shouldn't expect the lib-left mainstream media to publicize them. The bodies were barely cold in California when, true to form, the MSM made no reference to any possible homosexual connection as they began circulating lies that the half-Chinese Rodgers was motivated by €white privilege,€ a gun-crazed, conservative sexist who targeted only women.
Those lies mesh with the MSM agendas but fail to explain Slate's Mark Joseph Stern's abusive rant against Dr. Robi Ludwig's theory that Elliott Rodger's unprovoked attacks on both men and women could have been the consequence of the killer's struggle with his €homosexual impulses.€
Methinks your personal €animus€ against heterosexuals and truth is showing, Mr. Stern.
In a typically-venomous reaction to that hypothesis, Slate.com's Mark Joesph Stern, who specializes in articles ripping alleged homophobes, reviled noted psychotherapist Dr. Robi Ludwig for €spinning out a novel theory of the murderer's motives€ on Fox News.
Stern went on to fume, €It is perfectly reasonable to react to this bizarre conjecture with outrage and disgust. Ample evidence had, by that point, already illustrated that the shootings were committed by a man who craved sex with women but couldn't obtain it. Ludwig's claim, then, is totally baseless, leaving us to wonder whether her comments were motivated less by professional expertise than by anti-gay animus.€
Dr. Ludwig's outrageous and disgusting theory was far less vitriolic and far more objectively analytical than Stern's: €When I was first listening to him, I was like, €Oh, he's angry with women for rejecting him.' And then I started to have a different idea: Is this somebody who is trying to fight against his homosexual impulses? Was he angry with women because they were taking away men from him?€
Unlike Stern and Ludwig, I wouldn't presume to analyze poor Elliott's psyche since anything he said or wrote in his €manifesto€ and elsewhere must be taken in the context of a madman, although his murderous anger was all but palpable. That palpability is impossible to explain based simply on his failure to ever have sex, a girlfriend, or even a kiss by a girl over the course of his twenty-two years.
Considering America's hyper-sexual culture and especially considering that hook-ups, a euphemism for the bed-hopping that seems to be endemic on college campuses today, why couldn't an attractive, albeit effeminate-looking, kid who drove a luxury Beemer score or, at the very least, find a girl to date and give him a goodnight kiss?
Indeed, Elliott had innumerable reasons to be pissed at the world, none of which would account for a normal individual randomly slaughtering six innocent people, including repeatedly knifing to death his three male roommates, and wounding more than a dozen others.
The son of photographer-Hollywood director, Peter Rodger, and certainly financially comfortable, Elliott had a long history of mental illness.
In therapy since he was eight years old, he had stopped taking his medication, he apparently despised his step-mother, and subscribed to the extreme leftist €Young Turks€ YouTube channel. His mental state was no doubt exacerbated by trauma over his parents' divorce, his various run-ins with the police, having to deal with his father's penchant for selling naked images of women, and his own unrequited pining for beautiful girls.
Of course, none of that proves Dr. Ludwig's theory that Elliott Rodger was a latent homosexual but it should be remembered that the Connecticut state's attorney report on the horrendous murders at the Sandy Hook Elementary School by Adam Lanza found no €conclusive motive€ for his actions but did document unsettling facts about Lanza. Those facts included computer files he kept on the rights of pedophiles, a movie about man/boy love, instant messages concerning €homosexual fantasies,€ and numerous documents concerning mass murders.
Pending a full investigation, those findings on the Sandy Hook maniac may parallel the Isla Vista murderer's but, if they do, we shouldn't expect the lib-left mainstream media to publicize them. The bodies were barely cold in California when, true to form, the MSM made no reference to any possible homosexual connection as they began circulating lies that the half-Chinese Rodgers was motivated by €white privilege,€ a gun-crazed, conservative sexist who targeted only women.
Those lies mesh with the MSM agendas but fail to explain Slate's Mark Joseph Stern's abusive rant against Dr. Robi Ludwig's theory that Elliott Rodger's unprovoked attacks on both men and women could have been the consequence of the killer's struggle with his €homosexual impulses.€
Methinks your personal €animus€ against heterosexuals and truth is showing, Mr. Stern.
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