So elliot had a brilliant idea. I'll paste the gist of it from an article I found.
In all of its exhaustively detailed pages, no woman actually rejected him. The closest he came to speaking with a woman he desired was to say "hi" to one he passed randomly. When she didn’t respond, he wrote that he cried for an hour in the bathroom. In other words, this was not about the cruelty of a specific incident with a woman -- though that too, of course, would be senseless and inexcusable -- it was about women as an archetype, the controllers of sexuality.
This is a worldview that Rodger didn’t invent. At the end of the manifesto, he spelled it out. "Women should not have the right to choose who to mate with. That choice should be made for them by civilized men of intelligence." It is striking that he used the politically freighted phrase “right to choose,” normally associated with reproductive freedom, in reducing women to commodities for male use. Instead of being angry at women for holding the power to decide who comes into the world, he focused on women’s perceived freedom to decide who has sex and who doesn't. “They are the main instigators of sex,” he wrote. “They control which men get it, and which men don't.”
Rodger vacillated between seeing himself as god-like and as justifiably loathed. He alternated between seeing sex as the salve for every pain and the cause of it. “In an ideal world, sexuality would not exist,” he wrote. "In order to completely abolish sex, women themselves would have to be abolished." (Gay people do not exist here except as vocabulary for insults.) He proposed concentration camps for women, with a few allowed to survive for reproduction. All this, he said, was “my war on women.”
In all of its exhaustively detailed pages, no woman actually rejected him. The closest he came to speaking with a woman he desired was to say "hi" to one he passed randomly. When she didn’t respond, he wrote that he cried for an hour in the bathroom. In other words, this was not about the cruelty of a specific incident with a woman -- though that too, of course, would be senseless and inexcusable -- it was about women as an archetype, the controllers of sexuality.
This is a worldview that Rodger didn’t invent. At the end of the manifesto, he spelled it out. "Women should not have the right to choose who to mate with. That choice should be made for them by civilized men of intelligence." It is striking that he used the politically freighted phrase “right to choose,” normally associated with reproductive freedom, in reducing women to commodities for male use. Instead of being angry at women for holding the power to decide who comes into the world, he focused on women’s perceived freedom to decide who has sex and who doesn't. “They are the main instigators of sex,” he wrote. “They control which men get it, and which men don't.”
Rodger vacillated between seeing himself as god-like and as justifiably loathed. He alternated between seeing sex as the salve for every pain and the cause of it. “In an ideal world, sexuality would not exist,” he wrote. "In order to completely abolish sex, women themselves would have to be abolished." (Gay people do not exist here except as vocabulary for insults.) He proposed concentration camps for women, with a few allowed to survive for reproduction. All this, he said, was “my war on women.”
