How can we expect anything other than people like Elliot Roger if we do? While most men don't shoot a whole bunch of people and then themselves, plenty of men rape and abuse their girlfriends because of beliefs in power and entitlement to sex from women. Every time a mass-shooting happens, the media talks about guns and mental illness, yet 70/71 of the mass shooters have all been men. Why do we continue to teach boys to "dominate" and pretend that teenage boys can't control their sex-drives? Saying that rape is natural to men is an insult to all men.
Go to 5:19 of this video and you will actually find people sympathizing with Elliot Roger and what he did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPFcspwbrq8&bpctr=1401157604
If you wisely don't open links from yahoo forums, youtube "ELLIOT RODGER: MORE THAN A MADMAN"
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I dont buy it that this is some new phenomenon and men were suddenly taught to behave this way. This is something that goes way way way back before feminism even existed. This goes back to the caveman days even. It goes so far back I dont think there is a way to fix it. It's hopeless.
Elliot Rodger: The problem is women, they are primitive in nature and incapable thinking rationally. If they are allowed to choose who to breed with, humanity will never advance. Look at civilizations over 100 years ago. In a way they were much more civilized, simply because women were restricted and controlled. It was a much better world to live in.
A lot of men think this way and this line of thinking isn't new.
She's right - we do not question the culture of violence that the media is selling to boys and men. The consequence is that it combined with misogyny has killed in this case and a lot more too.
"Why do we teach men to worship sex and violence?"
Sorry but who exactly is teaching men to worship sex and violence? I don't see any lessons like that, but I do see lessons like these:
1) "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them"; 2) "my strength is not for hurting"; 3) "don't be that guy"; 4) "all men are rapists"; 5) "...who broke your heart so terribly that you've gone to this dark place..." (said by a woman who identifies as a feminist, and who is laughing, along with the show's host, as she says it);
And this is literally just the tip of the iceberg...I've purposefully left out references to engagement rings, domestic violence and rape double standards, campus activism targeting anything that questions the validity of feminism, expectations of sacrifice hoisted upon men and so on.
There is a problem with the way society raises it's boys...but it's not that it's teaching them to be violent per se...rather it's teaching them to define themselves not by who they are, but rather by how successful they are relative to society's expectations. It teaches boys to believe that they need to be a husband and Father, need to own a home, need to work themselves to the bone for the benefit of others, and so on...and if they don't, then it also teaches them that they are inferior men.
"Why do we continue to teach boys to "dominate" and pretend that teenage boys can't control their sex-drives?"
First off, who EXACTLY do you believe is teaching boys to "dominate?" Or are you conflating the natural imperative that males generally have (that transcends even humanity) to be competitive with "teaching boys to "dominate?"
Secondly, if you find it offensive that some believe rape is natural amongst men, I'd suggest you start attacking those "Don't Be That Guy" campaigns because after all...that is EXACTLY the type of offensive rhetoric they peddle.
"Go to 5:19 of this video and you will actually find people sympathizing with Elliot Roger and what he did"
And your point is...what exactly?
After all, we have no way to know how many of those individuals are trolls, how many are misogynists, or even how many are crazy groupies. It wasn't like having a TV show hosted by men who, to furious applause from a virtually all male audience, took up for Elliot Rodger and mocked the suffering of his victims...
...y'know, kinda the way the women of "The Talk" did in the aftermath of Catherine Kieu castrating her husband?