Oh, he was really gay. That explains it.
by digby
According to Dr. Robi Ludwig, a Fox news psychologist, Elliot Rodger wasn’t a violent misogynist who hated women because they didn’t want to sleep with him:
“When I was first listening to him, I was like, ‘Oh, he’s angry with women for rejecting him,’” Ludwig recalled. “And then I started to have a different idea: Is this somebody who is trying to fight against his homosexual impulses?’”
“Was he angry with women because they were taking away men from him?” she continued. “But this is a kid who couldn’t connect, and felt enraged, and wanted to obliterate anyone that made him feel like a nothing.”
Ludwig later declared that Roger’s could have been “angry at the men for not choosing him.”
Do they hand psychology credentials out to just anyone?
I’m actually surprised that there hasn’t been more of this. It’s a sign that some of the insulting stereotyping of gay men has begun to disappear that it hasn’t. There was a time that any young guy like Rodger who proclaimed a hatred for women would have been suspected of being gay before anything else. Despite all evidence to the contrary, when I was a kid it was taken as fact that gay men hated women (and gay women hated men.) And that was “their problem.”
That this assumption is relegated to a far corner of the fever swamps is a sign of progress.
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