To be fair to the father I'm sure they just asked him for a few comments and he gave them and said the press could use them without thinking about the potential consequences of that. I doubt he wanted to put his daughter in danger.

I didn't see the article but, they seriously did that? Man I hate humanity.

Especially since there is a Facebook page calling him an "American hero".

I've been thinking exactly the same thing. I had a look at the manifesto (I felt like I shouldn't but really wanted to know if this was really a woman hating thing since everyone is discussing it), and women weren't "mean to him". They didn't "friendzone" him. He just didn't speak to any women, and walked around being…

Right...so now this woman is on trial via FB?

After that guy murdered his ex-wife and several other people in a hair salon a few years ago, blaming the fact that she had tried to get custody of their child, my uncle blithely announced to me, my aunt (his sister, not his wife), and my grandmother that after experiencing an evil ex-wife trying to take his kid from…

Thank you. "I could have a made a huge public scene and done a lot of mental harm to a woman I know nothing about, but because women are so privileged in this society, I had to keep my mouth shut! Misandry!"

Jee Whiz, and you probably would have totally saved her from her complex self-harming issues. Where are you when we need you, Costco Hero?!?!

As opposed to the mind-blowing statement that "groping isn't murder"? The line you quoted was me agreeing with part of what you said, so good job undermining yourself.

While I think your main point is right, and a bad way to process this as a whole is to "other" him as mentally ill and the right thing is to concentrate on similarities, and it in context of violence against women, he was definitely having psychological problems. It looks like he had a lot of personal issues and was…

Mental illness is not magically outside of culture. Whatever was going on with this kid, he was connected to reality. Mental illness is powerful, and difficult, and it does not make people bad people. Whether or not this kid was mentally ill — if I had to guess I'd guess narcissistic personality disorder, but I'm not…

Yes to all of this.

But he wasn't mentally ill - he had Asperger's, yes, but neuroatypical =/= mentally ill. And the autism spectrum does not tend to cause people to go on killing sprees.

Yes, exactly! This is the perfect example of a difference in degree, rather than type. Without the mental illness, it's men "just" murdering their girlfriends or wives, "just" raping women, "just" stalking, harassing, and assaulting strangers, "just" treating women as objects, not subjects...

The difference between Rodger, who killed. and the "everyday sexist" who slaps, grabs, and berates is a difference of degree, not of kind.Finally, do not "other" Rodger by saying he murdered people because he was mentally ill.

The difference between Rodger, who killed. and the "everyday sexist" who slaps, grabs, and berates is a difference of degree, not of kind.Finally, do not "other" Rodger by saying he murdered people because he was mentally ill.

Isha, while I appreciate the focus brought on this hashtag, I think you're extremely wrong to characterize "everyday misogyny" as somehow distinct from the misogyny which fueled Rodger's machinations and eventually his killing spree.

I'm sorry that happened to you, and also that something similar has probably happened to most women. The irony, that when you turn down sex with a total stranger, men call you a whore. :/

I was out for my birthday last Saturday night and was out dancing with my friends. Literally in just our little circle dancing away to some cheesy 90's music. Some guy came up behind me and just would not stop groping me. I removed his hands and said 'No' at least 4 times, eventually I just moved to a different part…

Imagine a campaign to get cars to look twice for motorcycles before changing lanes. What if a car driver got upset by that and said "NOT ALL CARS HIT MOTORCYCLES!!!1!" Like, duh, but it's still an important message, and your reaction makes absolutely no sense.