This exploratory study examines the act of mass murder as an attempt by the perpetrators to lay claim to a hegemonic masculine identity that has been damaged or denied them, yet that they feel entitled to as males in American culture ... There is no psychological profile unique to mass murderers and many authors have speculated on their motivations. However, in this study, the range of interrelated stressors experienced by the majority of mass murderers threatened their hegemonic masculine identity and these men engaged in violence to protect their identity.

Im 22 years old and Im still a virgin. I've never even kissed a girl. I've been through college for 2.5 years, More than that actually. And I am still a virgin. That has been very torturous. College is the time when everyone experiences those things such as sex and fun and pleasure. But in those years i have had to rot in loneliness. Its not fair. You girls have never been attracted to me. I don't know why you girls aren't attracted to me, but I will punish you all for it. It is an injustice, a crime, because I don't know what you don't see in me. I am the perfect guy. And yet you throw yourselves at all of these obnoxious men instead of me, the supreme gentleman. I will punish of all you for it. (laughs) On the day of retribution, I am going to enter the hottest sorority house of UCSB and I will slaughter every-single spoiled stuck up blonde slut I see inside there.

I think that's a huge stretch. His last video with the crazy laughs was not in any sense standard MRA ranting.

Shifman said family members called authorities several weeks ago after being alarmed by YouTube videos "regarding suicide and the killing of people."

Police interviewed Elliot Rodger and found him to be a "perfectly polite, kind and wonderful human," Shifman said. Authorities did not find a history of guns, but did say the 22-year-old had trouble making friends, he added.

the number of MRA goons who kill someone¨Cor even commit a crime¨C is an infinitesimal percentage

Wizardchan is a Japanese-inspired image-based forum (imageboard) for male virgins to share their thoughts and discuss their interests and lifestyle as a virgin.

Three 9 mm handguns¡ªtwo Sig Sauers and a Glock¡ªwere found inside of Rodger's car, along with 41 magazines loaded with ten rounds of ammunition each.

I did, however, pass by one young girl, and she was like a goddess who came down from heaven. She was walking alone, in her bathing suit, with her luscious blonde hair blowing in the wind. I coudln't help but slyly admire her beauty as we passed by each other. I was scared. I was scared that she might view me as nothing but an inferior insect who's [sic] presence ruins her atmosphere. Her beauty was intoxicating! And then, just as we passed each other, she actually looked at me. She looked at me and smiled. Most girls never even deigned to look at me, and this one actually looked at me and smiled. I had never felt so euphoric in my life. One smile. One smile was all it took to brighten my entire day. The power that beautiful women have is unbelievable. They can temporarily turn a desperate boy's whole world around just by smiling.

That smile put me in a good, healthy mood for the rest of that walk, but it soon faded away as I realized that I could never actually have a girl as beautiful as that. She probably only smiled out of politeness. She would never go for me. And what is the point to life if I can't have a girl of such beauty? Some men get to have beautiful girlfriends like that, and some don't. I am among those who are denied such a pleasure, and that is why I hate life.

In my history class, I had a crush on a really pretty girl, only to find out that she had a boyfriend, and in my psychology class there was this group of popular kids who acted obnoxious the whole time. One of them was a very pretty blonde girl, and she actually enjoyed associated with the obnoxious boys in her clique. The injustice! I hated them all.

The ultimate evil behind sexuality is the human female. They are the main instigators of sex. They control which men get it and which men don't. Women are flawed creatures, and my mistreatment at their hands has made me realize this sad truth. There is something very twisted and wrong with the way their brains are wired. They think like beasts and in truth they are beasts. Women are incapable of having morals or thinking rationally. They are completely controlled by their depraved emotions and vile sexual impulses. Because of this, the men who get to experience the pleasures of sex and the privilege of breeding are the men who women are sexually attracted to...the stupid, degenerate, obnoxious men. I have observed this all my life. The most beautiful women choose to mate with the most brutal men, instead of a magnificent gentlemen like myself.

Women should not have the right to choose who to mate and breed with. The decision should be made for them by rational men of intelligence. If women continue to have rights, they will only hinder the advancement of the human race by breeding with degenerate men and creating stupid degenerate, stupid offspring. This will cause humanity to become even more depraved with each generation. Women have more power in society than they deserve, all because of sex. There is no creature more depraved and evil than the human female.

Women are like a plague. They don't deserve to have any rights. Their wickedness must be contained in order to prevent future generations from falling to degeneracy. Women are vicious, evil, barbaric animals, and they deserve to be treated as such.

You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul, and torched my conscience. You thought it was one pathetic boy's life you were extinguishing. [...] You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off.

You had everything you wanted. Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats. Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs. Your trust fund wasn't enough. Your Vodka and Cognac weren't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those weren't enough to fulfill your hedonistic needs. You had everything.

     My first week turned out to be very unpleasant, leaving a horrific first impression of my new life in Santa Barbara. My two housemates were nice, but they kept inviting over this friend of theirs named Chance. He was black boy who came over all the time, and I hated his cocksure attitude. Inevitably, a vile incident occurred between me and him. I was eating a meal in the kitchen when he came over and started bragging to my housemates about his success with girls. I couldn¡¯t stand it, so I proceeded to ask them all if they were virgins. They all looked at me weirdly and said that they had lost their virginity long ago. I felt so inferior, as it reminded me of how much I have missed out in life. And then this black boy named Chance said that he lost his virginity when he was only thirteen! In addition, he said that the girl he lost his virginity to was a blonde white girl! I was so enraged that I almost splashed him with my orange juice. I indignantly told him that I did not believe him, and then I went to my room to cry. I cried and cried and cried, and then I called my mother and cried to her on the phone.

     How could an inferior, ugly black boy be able to get a white girl and not me? I am beautiful, and I am half white myself. I am descended from British aristocracy. He is descended from slaves. I deserve it more. I tried not to believe his foul words, but they were already said, and it was hard to erase from my mind. If this is actually true, if this ugly black filth was able to have sex with a blonde white girl at the age of thirteen while I¡¯ve had to suffer virginity all my life, then this just proves how ridiculous the female gender is. They would give themselves to this filthy scum, but they reject ME? The injustice!

"Events like this," I said, "if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn't have messed with me. I'll go out in a blaze of glory."

In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, the NBC Nightly News and all the other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of "explaining" them. I commended the policy at the Sun-Times, where our editor said the paper would no longer feature school killings on Page 1. The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.

You will be the only man left, with all the females. You would be able to have your pick of any beautiful woman you want, as well as having dealt vengeance on the men who took them from you.

Holy shitballs.

So that killing that happened at UCSB by a hunger games assistant director's son. The video is just fucking insane.

I'm kind of pissed that some mefites are in denial over his clear mental illness.
There is no excuse for his actions, and yes, the PUA/MRA movement is dangerous and full of very problematic people. This video shows the mind of one individual who was infected by such horrible thinking.

As a guy who has been rejected in the past, who has had self-pitying thoughts and can understand where they come from (and who still occasionally gets his pity-party on), I can understand where these feelings of rejection come from, and the anger the "what's wrong with me?" feeling... then the inability to accept that there might be something wrong (the way you approach women, the way you treat them, the way you reach for someone who isn't really "your type", etc...)... And indeed, this whole "you're not a man if you don't get laid by the time college is over" is just as insidious and rotten as the inverse of "Wait til you're married". Both are social mores that must be combatted... Both, ultimately, stem from the same source: Patriarchy.

That said, watching his videos, there is some form of... I would guess a personality disorder. Some form of narcissistic element is very very very clear. The "I am god" and "you are animals"... The sort of sense of deep importance and pride he puts in himself, and this "pretty girls" as if he demands it from them, and they MUST submit. MRA/PUA mentality fits his mind very well, as it is that sort of thinking that dictates that women OWE them something just cuz they're men, and if they're rejected it's certainly not their fault it most be "YOU girls" (as he says in one of the videos).

I don't understand how someone can watch these videos and not see a clear sense of mental issues.

I don't think it's fair to say the cause of his actions are pure mental illness or mere MRA/PUA/RedPill bullshittery. It's a combination. That, however, does NOT excuse the toxic environment of the movement. I think many people who try to say there's no mental illness involved are taking a reactive approach as if by saying that if there is mental illness involved it excuses the MRA from their role in his actions, and that does not follow. Not a bit. Social environments play a role in an individual's formation. Individuals act within a social environment. Individuals are complex entities with conflicting inner desires that may or may not be met by the outside world or by themselves. Thoughts can fester.

It's clear this individual has something wrong with him, and I would hazard a guess that the girls who told him "no" understood this and saw it. "I am a perfect gentleman" (he exclaims in an authoritarian, almost demanding to be recognized, and most definitely chuffed in this proclamation). I see the seeds of narcissism very deep here, the insecurity he feels towards himself, the need to project and outwardly gain status via self-aggrandizement... If it isn't NPD, it's certainly some other personality disorder with similar traits.

Since 1966, the National Rifle Association has urged the federal government to address the problem of mental illness and violence. As we noted then, ¡°the time is at hand to seek means by which society can identify, treat and temporarily isolate such individuals,¡± because ¡°elimination of the instrument by which these crimes are committed cannot arrest the ravages of a psychotic murderer.

@Daniel_Gadsby It is up to men to combat misogyny and yesterday's tragedy.. "Not ok, bro, and here's why" needs to be said more often. #yesallwomen rt please

NoraReed: "Hire more female cops."

- Misogynist culture plays a role here
- So does mental illness
- So does access to weapons that make killing large numbers of people trivial

I cannot kill every single female on earth, but I can deliver a devastating blow that will shake all of them to the core of their wicked hearts. I will attack the very girls who represent everything I hate in the female gender: The hottest sorority of UCSB.

I understand that as a man your initial response to women talking about misogyny, sexism, rape culture and sexual violence is to wave your hands in the air like a drowning man and cry, ¡°Not all men! Not all men!¡± as if to signal yourself as someone who is not an entitled, presumptive fuck-whistle, but please believe me that interjecting yourself in that way confirms that you are.

...Instead of telling women that it¡¯s not all men, show them.

Show them by listening and supporting.

Show them by cleaning the dogshit out of your ears and listening to their stories ¡ª and recognize that while no, it¡¯s not ¡°all men,¡± it¡¯s still ¡°way too many men.¡±

In 2012, Johnson & Johnson settled a lawsuit claiming that Risperdal caused hundreds of male patients to grow breast tissue. Additionally, Johnson & Johnson face many claims that consumers were misled by both marketing and product packaging of Risperdal. [cite]

A mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress in social, occupational, or other important activities. An expectable or culturally approved response to a common stressor or loss, such as the death of a loved one, is not a mental disorder. Socially deviant behavior (e.g., political, religious, or sexual) and conflicts that are primarily between the individual and society are not mental disorders unless the deviance or conflict results from a dysfunction in the individual, as described above.

We've had twenty years of mass murderers, throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with sirens blaring. Don't have photographs of the killer. Don't make this 24/7 coverage. Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story, not to make the killer some kind of Anti-Hero. Do localize this story to the affected community, and make it as boring as possible in every other market. Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.

As soon as women began to speak about the massacre, a curious thing happened. Men all over the world - not all men, but enough men - began to push back, to demand that we qualify our anger and mitigate our fear. Not all men are violent misogynists.

Well, there have always been good men. Actually, I firmly believe that today there are more tolerant, humane men who recognise and celebrate the equality of the sexes than there have ever been before. Today, what I hear from many men and boys who talk to me about gender justice - decent, humane men and boys of the kind the twenty-teens are also, blessedly, producing in great numbers - is fear and bewilderment. Who are these people? Where do they live? And the unspoken fear: do I know them? Might I have met some of them, drunk with them? If the wind had changed when I was growing, if I had read different books and had different friends, might it have been me? If any man is capable of this, is every man capable of it?

Well, those are the correct questions to ask. What I hear more often, however, is ¡°not all men¡±. I hear that age-old horror of women¡¯s anger drowning out everything else. Not all men are like this. Don¡¯t look at us. Don¡¯t shout at us. Please, don¡¯t ask us to stand up and be counted.