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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAccused Toronto Killer Praised Woman-Hating Mass Murderer Moments Before Attack
Moments before allegedly killing 10 people in a van attack, Alek Minassian, 25, posted online about supreme gentleman Elliot Rodger, the woman-hating mass murderer.
OLIVIA MESSER
04.24.18 12:07 PM ET
The man suspected of mowing down pedestrians in a bloody rampage Monday in Toronto expressed his supportjust moments before the attackfor a mass murderer who became a hero of the fringe mens rights movement.
The Incel Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger! Alek Minassian reportedly Link to tweet
" target="_blank">wrote on Facebook shortly before plowing a vehicle through pedestrians, killing 10 people and wounding another 15.
A Facebook official confirmed the authenticity of Minassians post to The Daily Beast on Tuesday and noted that his account has been removed from the social media site.
Elliot Rodger killed six people during a 2014 shooting spree in Isla Vista, California, after planning his anti-women revenge rampage for more than a year. The 22-year-old called himself an incel, or an involuntary celibate, a phrase invoked by mens rights activists who feel rejected by women.
Rodger killed himself at the conclusion of his attack, leaving behind a 137-page manifesto that described how he felt shunned by women and sought revenge. He had also reportedly showed an interest in Nazis and had conducted internet searches about how to silently kill with a knife.
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joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Gotta love it when these corporations whitewash mentally deranged accounts like this.
Squinch
(50,958 posts)TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)malaise
(269,102 posts)despite their shitty behavior. Throw away the keys.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)Regarding why so many of these killing sprees involve men. Basically they believe feminism and female empowerment within our society is putting 'average and below' men at a disadvantage in the dating scene. They make points such as 20 percent of men getting 80 percent of the women throughout the main dating phase of life. Eventually the problem ends in the late twenties or early thirties when women are finally willing to settle for a similar smv(sexual market value) man to start a family.
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)kept their expectations more realistic and respectful of average women, they wouldn't be so angry.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)While killing sprees are never the answer, there are some real dating inequalities in our society. Just look at a dating site, an average looking man will get almost no attention unless he's rich. An average look woman will literally be flooded with messages. Part of the issue is that dating sites seem to have far more men than women...what is the cause of this? The only answer you can logically come up with is that men must have a harder time getting dates unless they're some kind of stud, or willing to date two+ points below their smv. I've dealt with this myself in dating and it's a real thing.
Also just look at and read the various support sites for so called incels, why are the no female counterparts? I'm not defending some of the mysogynistic views they have, but there is a real issue going on and society is having real issues from it.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)has to be the stupidest fucking phrase Ive ever come across. Thats some serious fedora-level idiocy right there.
Hekate
(90,744 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)They don't appear to become entitled jerks about it, but that isn't because they are able to find dates. They just don't blame everyone else and become violent.
MineralMan
(146,320 posts)on a heterosexual level. There's no "sexual market value." That's just an excuse people use. What there is is personalities, trying to find compatible personalities. It's not really about appearance. It's about who you are and how you behave. It's not how you look; it's how you act.
For anyone who thinks he's not getting dates for any reason, the answer can usually be found through some serious self-examination, and I don't mean in front of a mirror, either. Who you are and how you present yourself matters, not your outward appearance. Being attractive is more than just a good looking face and physique.
Dulcinea
(6,651 posts)...if they didn't hate and fear women so much. No one is entitled to sex.
Plenty of so-called "average" men don't lack for girlfriends or female companionship. These are the men who actually like and respect women. Yes, we can tell the difference! A man doesn't have to be rich or movie-star handsome (that's a bonus!) I guess it has never occurred to these "incels" that the problem is on THEIR end? Nahhhh.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)They're in every big city.
Paying for it is better than a celibate life in prison filled with remorse and suicidal guilt.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)It's not just about sexual release. You can do that yourself. It's about validation and having a parter who actually WANTS you. See the so called hierarchy of needs. How can somebody be happy when they're missing a full chunk of the pyramid?
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Jerking off to pr0n isn't going to cut it for these guys. They already do that.
Sex is so in the front of their adolescent Monkey Minds they cannot see how to make themselves likeable to women. They're spilling over with resentment, and women smell that a mile off.
Sexual frustration among young males leads to violence. See: Islam.
JHB
(37,161 posts)I read Roger's "manifesto" after his rampage. He evidently thought it would show the injustice against him, but something else was plain as day: any time he was even mildly prodded outside his comfort zone (e.g., told to go outside and play with the other kids on the block, or a trip to another country to visit relatives) he completely freaked out.
I couldn't find an instance wher he so much as talked to a girl, much less get rejected by anyone. Apparently beautiful women were supposed to just fall at his feet unbidden, which is on par for a guy who was convinced he'd win the lottery because he really wsnted it.
He was FUCKED UP. Period. So is anyone deluded enough to think he was some kind of martyr.
Those people are missing a chunk, but it ain't from any pyramid.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)why theyre so off-putting and fucked up that they cant get a date and fix that. Im not rich, Im not handsome, Im nerdy as hell, Im skinny as a rail, and I STILL somehow manage to have a normal sex life.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)They can try being more likable, less misogynist, something like that, and maybe women will like them. No one has the right to another person's body or attention.
Hekate
(90,744 posts)Show some interest in girls/women as fellow human beings -- ask them about their own interests. Be kind. Join co-ed social clubs. Stay away from "incel" chat rooms that reinforce your misery and resentment. Join another co-ed social club.
If at first you don't succeed, try try again. There are 7 billion people on the planet.
That is Life, and it is not all about you.
If these platitudes don't help, go see a shrink.
I have known some truly homely men and boys in my lifetime, and as far as I know they all partnered up eventually. Hint: they liked women as people, and they didn't reject all the girls who were not the Prom Queen. Some were shy, but their smiles lit up their faces.
"See the so-called hierarchy of needs" -- How about seeing women as humans who have the same hierarchy of needs.
Nay
(12,051 posts)Men who pine for the 'good old days' where a woman would fall into the lap of every employed man because that was the only way those women could have a socially-sanctioned future -- well, THAT'S what incels want to bring back. So, the incels themselves don't care about having a partner who actually WANTS them -- do you honestly think that women in the past, often forced into marriage by social restrictions, actually WANTED their husbands? Many did not, but were forced anyway. This arrangement seems to please incels, which doesn't surprise me at all. They want to contract for a female servant (by 'buying' her from her father or brother, not by pleasing her personally), and they don't give one damn about HER feelings about it. Women are all second class citizens who should just get on with their main reason for existing -- supporting and fucking men unconditionally.
These men will rarely attract women because they have earned themselves the label of "creep." THAT'S the problem. What they do with that knowledge is up to them -- no man is entitled to female companionship, just like no woman is entitled to male companionship. We are talking about humans here, and no human has to f**k you unless he/she wants to. It's not women's fault that men have constant, massive drive for sex 24/7 -- it's something men must deal with themselves.
irisblue
(33,007 posts)"The École Polytechnique massacre, also known as the Montreal massacre, was a mass shooting at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that occurred on December 6, 1989. Twenty-five-year-old Marc Lépine, armed with a rifle and a hunting knife, shot 28 people, killing 14 women, before committing suicide. He began his attack by entering a classroom at the university, where he separated the male and female students. "
This type of behavior has been happening for years & years.
IronLionZion
(45,472 posts)Not many women are into mass murdering psychopaths but a few probably are. Could be an idea for a dating site that law enforcement can watch closely.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)What was Adam Lanza's motive for Newtown? Revenge (for his condition, his unhappiness - against his Mom and then the entire world) and then, importantly, Infamy. We'll never be able to forget him, or what he did. I won't.
"Someday, you will ache like I ache." - Courtney Love, Doll Parts
IronLionZion
(45,472 posts)and watched for other stuff like driving a van into random strangers walking on the street
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Maybe a better approach is to stop letting young men have semi-automatic firearms at 18. Stopping a vehicle attack is going to be nigh on impossible.
This was Terrorism. Incel Terrorism. It's delusional, but so is Islamic Terror.
The only way to end Terror is to remove the motivation. I don't know how to do that.
IronLionZion
(45,472 posts)so they find other outlets for their frustration like yoga and meditation.
Vehicle attacks would be impossible to stop but it would be less deadly than gun or bomb attacks. Bomb making materials are highly regulated.
Stallion
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Hekate
(90,744 posts)Well, I am sure you all know the nauseating details. At least in America we have gender balance in the population.
I lived only a few miles from where "the supreme gentleman Eliot Rodger" carried out his insane attacks. And now he is an online hero? I need a shower.
"Incels" : Sick doesn't even begin to describe it.
RockRaven
(14,978 posts)is the effect, not the cause.
Being a creepy s***-burger causes involuntary celibacy? Who knew?