Elliot Rodger:

Was he Really a Misogynist or Just a Spoiled Man child?

By Lynn A. Granata

I think that the media has it juxtaposed when they call Elliot Rodger a misogynist.  Elliot Rodger can't be considered a misogynist, in fact he is nowhere near the concept of misogyny at all.

He was more a misanthrope than a misogynist.  Why? Because he hated practically all of humanity. He didn't just hate women exclusively, but he hated men probably just as much and even more than he purported to hate women. After all, he did murder more guys than he did girls on that fateful Friday night in Santa Barbara's swanky Isla Vista College town. In his You Tube rants, he has this creepy vibe that he sends out, with fake laughter, almost as though he's rehearsing for the leading part in an arch villain horror film.

Seems so contrived. Rodger's father was a movie director for the infamous film the Hunger Games. Peter Rodger in addition to that was also a photographer.  His most favorite subject of his photographic niche was no other than his second wife, Soumaya Akabourne. He enjoyed taking pictures of her naked fanny. Elliot couldn't stand Soumaya.  He found her to be a much more harsher disciplinarian than his own biological mother could ever hope to be. Soumaya kicked Elliot out of hers and Peter's house once she found out about Elliot's violent rants that he put up on his You Tube network. Naturally, Soumaya was frightened.

However, Elliot's own mother became just as concerned as did Soumaya.  Lin Chin called Elliot's father once she received word from him on what he stated on the You Tube videos about what he was planning on doing. She and Peter then agreed to contact the police. The police responded appropriately, by going to the address of the apartment in which Ellliot shared with 3 other male roommates.  The welfare check proved fruitless because Elliot was able to elude the cops that did show up that there was nothing amiss. When in truth, Elliot had just finished cleaning up what would have been a major crime scene had the police not taken his word for it and searched the apartment instead of brushing it off as harmless. Elliot himself was relieved when they left, because he would have been discovered immediately, and his whole plan of retribution would have gotten stopped dead in its tracks.

Unfortunately, this didn't happen, as innocent lives could have been spared and plus the bodies of the three dead roommates that Elliot butchered to death would have been found.  Elliot would have been arrested and then charged with 3 counts of first degree felony homicide and punished accordingly.

Why in heaven's name did this boy, who appeared from all of those around him to have everything in life to be grateful for, want to kill and maim so many innocent souls? There are so many questions, but not enough answers to come up with a reason. Some believe he was mentally ill, others think that he was autistic and that he lacked empathy and didn't understand how to read social cues. The only good hypothesis would be that Rodgers was a product of his own dysfunctional life patterns.

He couldn't make friends, and the ones he did make friends with later abandoned him. They could pick up on his creepy vibes, by his going on puahate.com and airing out his bottled up feelings about how much he hated women and men that were in better shape than he was. How much he hated that they could get laid and that he couldn't. He complained about how much he felt that blonde women should have been attracted to him, but apparently were not.

Finally, he hated his own kind because he felt that although they were beneath him, they still, despite that were able to score with the opposite sex and he was insanely jealous over it. His own father, Peter was a target of his insane jealousy because he could get a girlfriend right after divorcing his mother.

Conclusion

Elliot was a spoiled man child. Because he didn't have to earn what he had been given in his short miserable little life. He was wearing Armani shirts and $300 designer sunglasses. He owned a late model BMW. Once he began complaining about how much he was bullied in school, then in college, then later still in his early adulthood, his mother started giving him materialistic things, such as a large allowance and the BMW. Yet, Elliot didn't make any effort to tackle his shortcomings on his own terms. He expected others to do it for him and he thought that others were to blame for his unhappiness. He never made an effort to talk to any girls, despite putting up videos on his You Tube channel and advertising the things he did have, and why girls should pay attention to him. Elliot would instead brood about how much life was so unfair and write a 140 page manuscript detailing why going all the way back to his early childhood. Nowhere does it ever mention in this140 page rambling diatribe that the real fault lies within himself, the true reason why he was miserable.

The Involuntary Commitment

Why wasn't Elliot Rodger

"5150 ed?"

By Lynn A. Granata

Just Last year, a young 22 year old college student the son of movie director Peter Rodger, went ballistic in the city of Ista Vista, CA. This is where he was attending the University of California Santa Barbara.

Elliot Rodger a biracial young man, unhappy he couldn't find a blonde haired blue eyed goddess.

Elliot was born in England. When he was six he emigrated to the United States with his parents and then settled in Los Angeles, CA. His father Peter wanted a career in Hollywood as a movie director. His mother Lin Chen is of Chinese Malaysian descent. She met Elliot's father while she was playing on the set of Raider's of the Lost Ark pt. 2 as an extra, as a nurse. 

They met and fell in love, got married. Then about a year later, Elliot Rodger was born. To make a long story short, Elliot grew up as a shy, small, child who needed counseling because it was discovered that he may have been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. That is a high functioning form of autism. Later on as he grew up, he began having problems making friends, of both genders in high school then later college.

He wanted a girlfriend, but had troubles getting a girl to notice him, as he constantly fretted over it. He was 22 and still a virgin. What Elliot didn't realize was that he was socially inept. Elliot didn't have friends of his own gender first of all. 

He lived a life of isolation playing games such as World of Warcraft on his computer. He was a very depressed lonely young man. At home things weren't working out all that well for him.  His father and mother divorced, and his father remarried soon after. 

Peter Elliot married a French actress and nudity model named Soumaya Akabourne. Rodger's relationship with Soumaya wasn't that good. His father decided it would do good for Elliot to get away from home, attend college and live near the campus in an apartment, which he eventually began to do and shared it with 3 other male roommates. 

Soumaya Akabourne Elliot's stepmother

Elliot was always comparing himself to other people. He wanted a girlfriend, but if someone else had one, he felt wasn't fair, he made fun of people of other races because they had what he felt he should have had instead.

Elliot started to become a walking time bomb. He was given a nice new BMW car by his mother. But he still wasn't happy. Elliot's mother, Lin Chen had sent him to a psychiatrist for his what was believed to be antisocial personality disorder and schizotypal tendencies.  His psychiatrist prescribed him the anti-psychotic medication risperdone. When he researched risperdone, Rodger refused to take it, stating in his 141 page manifesto that risperdone was the wrong medicine for him.

  He started filming himself and uploading his videos to You Tube. Once he started doing this, he clearly began showing signs of insanity. He would talk violently in these videos, send them to his parents. Then he ordered firearms through the mail. 

He began to write the 141 page manifesto. Once his parents caught wind of his plans, they became concerned and called the police. There were about 7 cops who showed up at his apartment for a welfare call. But when Elliot answered the door, he was polite to the officers, and they left, because Rodgers did a great job of convincing them that there was not a problem in the world. So they all left Elliot alone to his own devices.

Rodger as he appeared in his own self loathing video

If the police had intervened right at this time, it has been speculated that what was to come would have been prevented. Elliot was already known by the cops in that city as a mentally unstable individual. Rodger could have been taken to a psychiatric hospital emergency room and placed on a 72 hour hold. A psychiatric evaluation or a 5150 could have kept Rodger from killing innocent people on the streets of Ista Vista that night. 

Rodger killed his 3 roommates, then 2 sorority girls, injuring 23 more others, he also killed another young man, Michael Martinez, in a convenience store.  Rodger then went on a high speed case through the downtown area, but the cops couldn't stop him until they fired a round into the driver's side door of his black BMW. The round hit Rodger in the left hip, Rodger continued his chase, running over the poor pedestrians and bicyclists randomly on the street. By the time the police found Rodger's car, it was totaled and smashed through the windshield, and Rodger was found with a self inflicted bullet wound to the head. He had killed himself before the police got to his stopped car after it had done a plethora of property damage.