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.
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.
