I'm sick of this. Some media outlets are now exploiting Isla Vista killer's childhood "crush"
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Yet as bad as the “Virgin Killer” description is, nowhere has the stupendous lack of sensitivity, respect or even coherent thought been more evident than in the coverage of the woman Rodger described as the “evil bitch” who “teased and ridiculed” him – and was “the first girl I ever had a crush on.” I’m not going to write her name or link to the stories that do, because though they’re easy enough to find, I believe we all have a choice in how we participate in the coverage of this crime. And as far as I can tell, all that young woman who’s now being lasciviously described as a “stunning blonde” ever did to garner all this press was to attract the attention of a future mass murderer. When she was a child.
Her father has told the MailOnline – in a story that not only named her but featured bikini pics of her – that “She was ten years old for God’s sake — she can barely remember the guy. He’s a sociopath. She hasn’t seen him since school. How is a ten-year-old girl going to bully a 12-year-old boy? Maybe the girls she hung around with did poke fun at him, but they were kids. My daughter was not a bully; she’s one of the sweetest people you could ever meet. She probably rejected his aggressive advances. If you want to call that bullying then fine…. She just remembers that he was a strange kid, she knew he wasn’t a normal type person, but there are a lot of people like that at that age.”
Yet she’s being now ungrammatically described as “the model that teased Elliot Rodger that made him hate women.” The New York Post, while also running bikini pics of her, calls her “the aspiring model whose childhood rejection of Elliot Rodger lit the fuse that turned him into a murderous madman,” a female who – knife twist! – “barely remembers him.” The Telegraph similarly has led with the headline that the “Schoolgirl blamed by Elliot Rodger for hatred of women doesn’t remember him.” Another site goes all in with a headline promising “Photos of Model Who Elliot Rodger Was Obsessed With,” while yet another lists a series of “facts” you need to know about her, including that her Facebook bio announces “Yeah you’re cute but I’m cuter.” Not that anybody at these alleged news and opinion outlets would exactly blame her or anything, but just make up your own minds, everybody, about this braggy blonde in a bikini who can’t even remember the murderer she made hate all women.
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http://www.salon.com/2014/05/27/the_media_scapegoating_of_rodgers_childhood_crush/
Just when I think media coverage of this horror couldn't get any worse.
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Of course they do.
This guy hasn't heard of 'creep shaming'.
Naturally, it has to also involve "bikini pics"
I'm making a point to avoid going to any of those outlets. I don't want to know her name or what she looks like. What an awful situation to be in!
But to your point, you are 100% correct. Hell, just based on some of the headlines, it seems some outlets are actively promoting the "it's all her fault" angle. It's disgusting.
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She was like, what, ten, when she met this Rodger fellow? Come on! She wasn't at quite at the age where she'd be really thinking about boys, anyway.
I realize that most of the media probably didn't have any misogynistic intentions in mind, but they really need to leave her alone, and let her live in peace, IMO. 
That type of thing is exactly what he would have enjoyed seeing happen to the girl. It is truly disgusting.
That creep was to blame, not a 12yo girl