Fox News ‘expert’ suggests ‘homosexual impulses’ triggered Calif. mass shooting

[DonViejo]

By David Edwards
Sunday, May 25, 2014 9:27 EDT

Reality television psychologist Dr. Robi Ludwig asserted to Fox News that a mass shooting in California over the weekend may have been triggered because the suspect could not cope with his “homosexual impulses.”

In a videos posted on YouTube, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger explained that he had planned a shooting rampage to get retribution on women for rejecting him.

“All you girls who rejected me and looked down upon me and treated me like scum, while you gave yourself to other men,” Rodger said just hours before gunning down six people near UC Santa Barbara’s campus. “And all of you men for living a better life than me. All of you sexually active men. I hate you.”

By late Saturday night, Ludwig was speculating to Fox News that Rodger’s gay feelings had turned him into a mass murderer.

“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.”

“This was just a kid that was angry in general. He probably felt rejected, he couldn’t connect, he couldn’t feel loved, he couldn’t feel successful. Maybe he couldn’t even feel like a real man.”

Watch the video below from Fox News’ Justive with Judge Jeanine, broadcast May 24, 2014.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/25/fox-news-expert-suggests-homosexual-impulses-triggered-calif-mass-shooting/

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[lostincalifornia]

1. Frankly this is just another anti-gay spew from faux. Implying that there is something wrong with

"gays", which is why what happened occurred.

There was a similar post where someone else on DU also suggested that "perhaps he was gay"

The fact is most mass murders are committed by straights is obviously a small fact that they do not want to bring up.

No surprise it is coming from faux, am surprised something similar was posted on DU


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4996401

[Scuba]

2. The phrase "Fox News expert" is an oxymoron. Now "Fox News propagandist" I can buy.

[hobbit709]

3. You mean Fox News shit shoveler don't you?

[Starry Messenger]

4. I know his screen name here.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Blame it on the "homosexual agenda". That sounds about right for faux news.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

6. One of our very own experts is expounding the same theory.

Maybe it's a collaborative effort.

[Warpy]

10. I know, I almost alerted on that thread

but backed out, preferring to let my fellow DUers rip him to shreds. There are 150 replies now, so I imagine there's not much left of him.

It's funny how some people look at a late adolescent pretty boy and ASSume he's got to be gay. I didn't get that impression at all from his tapes. I got the impression of a ridiculously entitled male who thought women were a species of cattle who owed him their orifices whenever he felt horny and was outraged when they had other ideas. Some of his web postings were borderline insane, tearing into any random woman for no discernible reason.

It's too bad his parents didn't buy him a Real Doll to go into the passenger seat of his Beemer. One of those would have solved all his problems.

[QC]

15. Jury voted 5- to keep the thread open.

Welcome to the brave new world of Community Standards.

[QC]

7. What is Dr. Ludwig's DU handle?

Seems like he started a thread here on the very same topic.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

12. Link it please. Thanks. nt

[LAGC]

13. Here you go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4996401

[GeorgeGist]

8. I think Dr. Ludwig posts on DU.

[951-Riverside]

9. I don't think he had an interest in women

He just wanted to kill a bunch of people but knew doing that would make him look like a monster so he put out the sob story about not getting laid as cover ...and it worked. The whole sob story that Chris Dorner put out worked pretty well too.

[m-lekktor]

11. yeah it's common for us gay guys to get mass murderish when we

get rejected by women . unfuckingbelievable.

[etherealtruth]

14. This is FOX News MO

Appeal to the bigotry and stupidity of folk. It is irrelevant that it is bizarre ... as long as it appeals to bigotry and stupidity