Elliot Rodger: Difference between revisions

His father (Peter Rodger, a small time director) was a white British national and his mother (Ong Li Chin) was a Malaysian national of Chinese descent. He lived with his father and his Moroccan step-mother after his parent's divorce. In the time leading up to his rampage, he wrote the lengthy manifesto/autobiography ''[[My Twisted World]]'' and distributed it prior to the incident. Elliot's lack of female attention (partially ascribed to his [[shyness]]), sexual frustration, and fury at perceived mistreatment he claims to have suffered and what he saw as the injustices of society drove him to do the tragic 2014 Isla Vista massacre.   

Elliot was an unhappy member of [[PSL|PUAhate]], which was not a self-identified incel forum.  Due to the forum's focus on anti-pickup-artistry, it did have a lot of sexually frustrated men.  Elliot described it as “a forum full of men who are starved of sex, just like me”<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/30/elliot-rodger-puahate-forever-alone-reddit-forumsM/</ref>  However, Elliot ultimately condemned the site, as his last post there (and anywhere) read: "[Puahate] is full of stupid, disgusting, mentally ill degenerates who take pleasure in putting down others".<ref>https://www.independent.com/2015/02/20/elliot-rodger-report-details-long-struggle-mental-illness/</ref>  His shooting resulted in [[PSL|PUAhate's]] closing soon afterwards, after the heated media coverage regarding the forum that ensued subsequent to the massacre. Rodger's manifesto never mentioned the word "incel" and out of thousands of posts across many websites he only used the word, "incel", three or so times, including to self-identify.  He seemed to have spent most of his forum time in the anti-pick-up artist culture and websites tangentially related to dating, such as bodybuilding.com.   

He began his massacre by visciously stabbing his three Asian male roomates (one of which he had quarelled with previously, due to the roomate's alleged theft of his candles). Rodger's murderous rage and hatred of his roomates was made clearly evident by the fact that in the course of their murders, he stabbed one of them a total of 94 times.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20150220034256/http://www.sbsheriff.us/documents/ISLAVISTAINVESTIGATIVESUMMARY.pdf</ref>.

He apparently enjoyed "swimming, hiking, reading, writing, going to the library and playing video games."  His favorite video game was World of Warcraft, stating in his manifesto, that at one time "World of Warcraft was the only thing I had left to live for". Rodger also enjoyed playing other videos games series such as Halo and Call of Duty. He apparently make an effort to [[looksmaxxing|improve his physical appearance]] prior to the massacre, engaging in calisthenics as a form of bodybuilding, and purchasing expensive designer clothing and sunglasses. He seems to have become more and more desperate in terms of the [[cope|coping mechanisms]] he employed prior to the massacre, attempting '[[Fapstinence|no fap]]' prior to the attack, and he also attempted to use the "law of attraction" to win the lottery in a last-ditch effort to attract women through [[LMS|acquiring money]].

He also is said to have enjoyed fantasy films and television shows. His favorite films included Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. He also enjoyed solitary walks and observing the sunset at scenic locations in Isla Vista prior to the massacre.

As news of the story broke, one of the first online reactions was from the so called, "mental health support", community [[Social Anxiety Support]] which spontaneously erupted in multiple threads of [[sympathy]] for Elliot Rodger, exclusively from male users.  The [[femoid]] users of [[Social Anxiety Support]] then started flaming the threads in disgust at the reaction.

Elliot Rodger's personal story is disproportionately cited by media because he exhibited [[narcissism|narcissistic]] traits and an unlikable personality and this fits with their narrative. It has been claimed that Rodger's frustrated narcissism was a significant factor in his decision to undertake his murderous rampage, with this likely being a greater factor in contributing to the massacre than his autism<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359178916301744M</ref>, and that frustrated narcissism was also a factor in several other mass killings, as part of a theorised "path to intended violence" model, wherein narcissists seek violent revenge for the alleged insults they suffer in contravention to their elevated self-image, a purported example of such being the terrorist attacks committed by Anders Brevik, who was also diagnosed with autism. It is also important to note, that while it has been claimed that Rodger had [[Asperger's]] syndrome, he was never diagnosed with this, instead being diagnosed with PPNOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder not Otherwise Specified), another Autism Spectrum disorder.

This, as compared to the previous incel murderer [[George Sodini]] (who Rodger mentioned in some of his online postings), who had no mental disorders and was (for most of his life) apparently pretty modest, kind, hard working, and normal. Similarly [[Alek Minassian]]'s personal story is rarely talked about, as he was a horribly bullied autistic special needs student, and talking about his story would possibly generate too much [[empathy]].