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Originally Posted by BobbyDavis
Yeah. If you are depressed you should definitely avoid Gender Studies.
A lot of the members that post frequently on there are very bitter and consumed with hate and they use the section as a place to vent their frustrations with the world and try to convert other people to their way of thinking to cover up their shortcomings. I am actually surprised it wasn’t closed down by the Admin because Rodger was very vocal about his bitterness towards women and what he wanted to do to them during the time he was a member along with his hatred of his brother who he claimed ‘owed him’ on numerous posts but when members started talking about him and posting links to his old posts they were ignored by Yahoo and deleted. How Rodger was not deleted and reported to the Authorities years ago is beyond me and I personally think Yahoo, You Tube and other sites he was on should have been held accountable to an extent for not taking action towards him and others like him.
Elliott Rodger was a bitter psychopathic dickhead and I don’t usually talk ill about the dead but when ill-informed people who call themselves journalists blame Asperger’s Syndrome and other disabilities for his actions it tends to annoy me because it wasn’t his disabilities that made him go on a rampage and kill people and not everyone with Asperger’s is a psychopath. If they actually took the time to do some ‘investigating’ they would find the reason why Elliott Rodger did what he did is not hard to find and his actions were inspired by the groups (or cults, if you will) he was a member of. Groups such as MGTOW are full of very bitter and hateful men like Elliott that despise women and any men that has a girlfriend or a wife and they live in this pretend world where every member of the female gender is evil and out to destroy their lives and if you have seen some of their ******** it is sad and pathetic.
I remember seeing a number of male members on Gender Studies that were a part of this group and some of them would just posts about their bad experiences with women and how they believed “All women were gold digging sluts and lesbians that used men” but others like Elliott Rodger, Axel and a member called God were far more extreme and would ask questions about raping and killing women which would turn into turn into fights with other members and I remember Elliott quite well because he would post the same **** over and over again and you could go on Monday and see one and then go back on Friday and he would still be asking with some minor changes. Elliott Rodger posted under the name ‘Rodger’ and he had an avatar of a red blimp in the air that was later changed to a cartoon picture of his favourite serial killer’s face which he called a hero to men in the details of his profile.
Tell me you are not Ricky Southwell as in the “Bad Azz Homie that eats McDonalds food” and spent a large part of 2012 asking the same damn questions about feminists? I always suspected him of being a bed humper but I never thought he would actually write he didn’t need women anymore because he could hump his bed and nobody would be able to stop him. That had to be the funniest thing I saw on that site.  |
I used to get on GWS back in 2008 or so. I would mainly just be asking questions about women's dating preferences and the way things work in the dating scene. I would ask there because I would get more answers than on singles and dating.
Anyhow, I have to disagree with your assessment of Elliot Rodger. People have been so quick to blame it all on "misogyny" and the "men's rights movement", but the fact is, men who follow those ideologies and hate women generally don't go out and kill people. Furthermore, there have been a bunch of shooting incidents like this(there was just one at FSU a couple nights ago) and there is no tendency for these shooters to be part of any anti-women group. Yes, some men out there are woman-haters and that is unfortunate. There are just as many women who are man-haters. But the issue of shooting rampages has little to do with the misogyny or misandry.
Yes, I totally agree that Aspergers does not cause someone to go out and shoot people and that it cannot be blamed for what happened. But if people wish to understand why he and so many other men are so angry and bitter, I think Aspergers and the issues it causes probably have a lot to do with it. Most people do not understand Aspergers pretty well and it is probably under-diagnosed. I was never diagnosed, but I am pretty certain that I fall somewhere on the spectrum. One thing that almost all people with Aspergers share in common is that they have trouble relating and connecting to other people socially. Now, if the person matches the stereotypical Aspie archetype that most people believe all Aspies to be like (Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory, Abed from Community, etc.) then this wouldn't be such a huge problem, because this type of person has no desires or ambitions that would require social success in order to achieve. But the fact is, this is NOT how most Aspies are. One thing I have heard before is "most Aspies have no interest in dating". This is absolute ********. Just because an Aspie man has little interest in relationships or social interactions with women, it does NOT mean he isn't romantically or sexually interested in women. Most Aspies DO get crushes and DO "want" girls. But as you can imagine, the dating scene is not very Aspie-friendly, particularly for males. The social convention is that the male is generally required to court the female and in a way that required a certain level of social skill. For example, it is not acceptable for a guy to go up to a girl and straight up tell her he's interested in her or even make it obvious. The guy is required to basically have an excuse. For an Aspie who likely has little interest in social chitchat and has trouble connecting socially, this may will be very difficult, if not impossible.
Anyways, my point is, the struggles that people with Aspergers deal with are very real. I am pretty certain that it is these struggles which lead many men to become angry and hateful and in some cases blame women for their plight. Many have seemed to be suggest that the root of the problem is misogyny. It is almost like they are suggesting that the solution is rounding up all the misogynists and locking them up or something. I seriously saw a petition shortly after this incident suggesting that the government should label the "men's rights movement" as a terrorist group. I can't stress enough how dumb that is. It really seems to me like these people are just trying to use the incident for propaganda purposes and have little interest in actually finding a solution.