The opinions that follow
are my own, and nobody else's.
On Friday, May 23, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger stabbed three people to death at
his apartment in Isla Vista, California. He then got in to his car and drove,
fatally shooting three more people and wounding 13 others, primarily attractive
women, until he killed himself via gunshot. He left behind more than 100 pages
of ramblings blaming everyone but himself, how he planned to destroy
"everything he cannot have" because he was, in his words, a
"kissless virgin."
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Rodger's idea of a dream girl (Google Image) |
Since then, all I have seen is anger.
Don't get me wrong, anger is certainly justified in this case, but I have seen
many forms of anger. Anger at the act, anger at the lives lost, anger at the
male-centric culture that would produce someone like Rodger, who apparently
believed women have no use outside of being a pretty possession to be
owned.
People are going to be
angry, because anger is part of the mourning process. It's how the human animal
deals with and reacts to shock. However, it cannot be all we have.