This article has some really good insights about the potential reasoning behind the size range:

His “I am just a confuzed old with a case of teh feeblez” schtick in the court room makes me want to jump out of my chair, get in my time machine, go back to the hearing date, drive to Sacramento, march into the courtroom, and kick the chair out from under him. Wasn’t he doing yard work while simultaneously cooking a…

I saw several interviews today with law enforcement people who had worked on this case for a long time, including FBI profilers, and most of them seemed to agree that he is savvy enough to have faked all this. That he was pretending to have meltdowns in the middle of his attacks to create a potential defense. I hope…

Exactly. He was also in court straight up pretending he can barely speak which is rich since he’s been recently screaming at nothing in his backyard. I suspect his public defender is trying to make him appear as frail as possible. I can’t say I blame them for trying, there is a tremendous amount of evidence against…

Yeah, Bonnie probably dodged a huge fucking bullet there. Good for you, Bonnie!

I think it’s both. In Michelle McNamara’s book, she said one of the victims said he told them that if he saw the crime on the news he would kill two people. He didn’t want it on the news because “it scares Mommy” and “Mommy doesn’t like it.” So rather than, ya know, stop raping, he just demanded his victims keep quiet…

Exactly. He obviously has some massive issues that contributed to his behavior. Personal stresses might have been an impetus, but they were not a cause. All that said, though, I will be (even more) furious if his lawyers try to pull an insanity defense. Dude knew exactly what he was doing. And he’s already back to the…

What I heard earlier this week was that perhaps the victims confused the name “Bonnie” with “mommy” during the attacks. Eh, $10 that even if he wasn’t saying mommy, there’s some fucked up backstory with his upbringing anyway. What a piece of shit.

it’s all a rich tapestry of misogyny?

I think this is one of those things where women’s actual sexual desires tend to get downplayed culturally in favor of what men imagine that women desire.

This is interesting to read. I can honestly say I’ve never heard any girl say that Asian men were ugly. If anything, I would have said that in the world of average people, being Asian was a mild advantage because Asians tend to have less body hair... something many woman prefer...

I was talking to a man in a bar once, and he invited me to his condo upstairs to see the view.

Does the robot have to have those gigantic instagram eyebrows?

I find it odd/interesting that people say that about Asian men, because I’ve known a number of white women that are ALL ABOUT Korean or Japanese guys. I think this is one of those things where women’s actual sexual desires tend to get downplayed culturally in favor of what men imagine that women desire.

That’s awful and I can’t believe your mother a) thinks that, and b) says so in front of you. I’m sorry.

Or it’s possible that his fully Asian roommates (like all non-misogynists) were better with women than he was, and it broke his brain that he couldn’t pin his inability to snare a supermodel on “Bitches don’t like Asian guys, waaaaahh” alone.

Part of their inability to get laid is surely the bitterness that emanates from them when interacting with women. Of course it isn’t so obvious from all of them, but I have certainly interacted with a guy at a bar/party/wherever where a small voice pops into my head and says “Oh, he hates women.” Or “Oh, you’re a…

The incel communities are the gateway to the nazis, white power shit. that’s been talked abotu a lot this week, i hope the trianing changes

I think Julia Serrano’s insights are vital in this regard, because it’s my understanding that these incels are so dangerous precisely because they’ve so deeply internalized those double-binds that Serrano talks about.

I used to work with young people, and these days you get training on radicalisation (spotting the warning signs, what to do, etc.) and its all about Radical Islam and White Power organisations, as you would expect. I actually raised this stuff, because I’ve come across it on the internet quite a bit and there was this…