The 2014 Isla Vista Massacre Essay - 612 Words

This past Friday of Memorial Day weekend 22-year old Elliot Rodger, son of the assistant director of The Hunger Games went on a rampage in the coastal town of Isla Vista, neighboring the UC Santa Barbara campus where six students were murdered in total plus multiple injured by who the media and any mainstream news station would label â€Å"a very lonely and mentally disturbed young man†. But you only have to watch his final YouTube video called â€Å"Elliot Rodger’s Retribution† to know that he knew exactly what he was doing. In this chilling video he sits in his black BMW expressing his clear superiority complex and sense of entitlement towards women. He lays out his final plan saying â€Å"On the day of retribution, I will enter the hottest sorority†¦show more content†¦At these camps, the vast majority of the female population will be deliberately starved to death [†¦] A few of them would be spared, however, for the sake of reproduction. These women would be kept and bred in secret labs†. If you Google Elliot Rodgers, majority of the articles will detract from the real issue, instead focusing on how Rodger’s might have had Asperger syndrome, and how this was the real cause of the premeditated murders. Obviously though, violent misogyny is not a symptom of mental illness. So it literally makes no sense to deny that systematic misogyny had anything to do with Elliot Rodger’s actions despite his explicit statements pointing out that it did. His emphasis on how unacceptable it is for himself to be a virgin at 22 years old reveals how bizarrely hyper sexualized American society is in comparison to other countries. In Asian or Africa 22 is a normal age to still be a virgin. Only in America is a young dude who has not â€Å"scored pussy† considered inadequate in the social rankings until he’s no longer a virgin. 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