Guns Don't Kill People, Misogyny Kills People

Everyone is talking about Elliot Rodgers and the shooting at UCSB so I might as well throw in my 2 cents. It was a tragedy and my heart goes out to all the grieving families and those innocent lives lost. I don’t think Elliot Rodgers was an innocent life.

People are using this as a platform for gun control and mental illness but that’s not the core of this issue. From what I’ve seen, Elliot Rodgers was a sociopath who was the ultimate ‘Nice Guy.’ ‘Nice Guys’ are the guys who see women as NPC characters in the story of them. If they are decent to the woman they desire, she is supposed to be theirs. Her own agency as a person is not a concern

Elliot felt entitled to beautiful women. His father worked on The Hunger Games and Elliot drove a BMW so I doubt there was anything he was ever really denied in life. It never dawned on him that he might have a crappy personality, that women reserve the right to say no, or that he’s not entitled to another human being. Rather than face rejection like an adult or admit he might be part of the problem, he used it to fuel a disturbingly misogynistic ideology.

The part that is terrifying is that there are plenty of people who sympathize with this sociopath! They’re saying things like how women are stuck up sluts, how giving it up can save lives, and how this is the fault of blondes, not mental illness or guns. Men’s Rights movements and a plethora of on-line chat boards are backing this up.

This is sick, disturbing, and shows that feminism still has a lot of work left to do. How many of you would want your daughter, sister, or girlfriend spoken to like this? How many deserve to die for rejecting someone they don’t desire?

If someone had slapped Elliot Rodgers with a dose of reality, maybe this wouldn’t have happened. Having money doesn’t entitle you to a woman. Being male doesn’t entitle you to a woman. Nothing entitles you to another human being. The more men learn this, the better our world will be.