The intro to an article I wish I had written.
How is that a man can leave a 140-page manifesto describing, in explicit detail, how much he hates women, why he hates women, why he thinks women deserve to be punished, and precisely how he plans to punish them — and then his subsequent killing spree is attributed to everything but misogyny?
Honestly, I’m sure it’s tempting to shy away from that painful truth. It’s comforting to pretend that future killings can be prevented just by making mental health care more easily accessible, or by locking up all the guns. Just like it’s comforting to pretend that rape can be prevented if women just wear modest clothes and cover our drinks. Acknowledge that Elliot Rodger’s killing spree was grounded in misogyny, and we have to acknowledge that preventing such tragedies isn’t about changes in laws —- it’s about changes in society, in a culture that supports the idea that women are objects and sex with a woman is a man’s god-given entitlement.
Misogyny is the issue.
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The Arbourist
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June 4, 2014 at 6:22 am
N℮üґ☼N☮☂℮ṧ
Nothing much will change until the Alpha male chimpanzees are no longer making the rules and controlling the media in society.
Garbage in, garbage out.
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June 4, 2014 at 6:54 am
N℮üґ☼N☮☂℮ṧ
As world renowned psychologist Philip Zimbardo stated: It’s not the ‘bad apples’, it’s the barrel. If you want to get a better picture of just how close we are to the behavior of chimpanzees and baboons, read the article “Peace Among Primates”, scroll down to “Left behind”, and read about the Forest Troop baboons and what happened to the troop after 1/2 the alpha males died from tainted meat. The became civilized. As Dr. Sapolsky stated, they created a baboon utopia.
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/peace_among_primates
We live in a society that’s worse than these brutal primate cousins because our society is constantly promoting and glorifying hyper-masculinity and male-dominated religions. You can see this clearly, via the media and advertising when you go to genderads.com. I read the 140 page manifesto. Saw all the signs of a neurological disorder and clinical depression starting around the age of 15 and progressively getting worse over the next couple of years.
Then he was neurologically programmed by misogynist hate groups during a crucial brain development – synaptic pruning period, with an under developed pre-frontal cortex (normal for his age), flooded with huge surges of testosterone (normal for his age), living in a hyper-masculine ocean of ammunition and guns. What he did was not the least bit surprising to me, considering.
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June 4, 2014 at 8:39 am
john zande
Yup
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June 4, 2014 at 12:35 pm
The Arbourist
@NN
I wonder if it is easier to talk to dudes about Primates than Patriarchy.
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June 4, 2014 at 12:44 pm
N℮üґ☼N☮☂℮ṧ
That I wouldn’t know, but as Jackson Katz said, this isn’t a women’s issue, it’s a men’s issue.
I posted his excellent TED talk in the comment section of this post.
http://digger666.com/2014/06/04/tomgram-rebecca-solnit-yesallwomen-changes-the-story-tomdispatch/
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