Elliot Rodger and America’s ongoing masculinity crisis

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http://www.salon.com/2014/05/28/elliot_rodger_and_americas_ongoing_masculinity_crisis_partner/



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And there is no doubt these killers, men and women both, are in pain. In fact, that’s why I believe the place where these shootings happen is worth looking at—they happen in schools, they happen in the workplace, in churches, at parties—the very places where the person doing killing has been in the most pain. Sometimes the killer sets out to kill specific people, but other times it is simply a desire to kill whoever is in that particular place. When you are socially isolated you go to kill in the places where people are most social.

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To get these insights I went over the list of all 70 mass killings and looked for the patterns in three areas: 1) the physical locations of the shootings, 2) what we learned about the reasons and motivations for the killings in confessions, notes, interviews or videos, and 3) whom the killer targeted. This is how the numbers play out:

Out of 70 mass shootings (69 men, 1 woman):

Workplace shootings 26

School shootings 12

Targeting women and/or rejection by women 6

Politics, racism, protecting oneself against “others” 6

Drug or alcohol fueled rage 3

Church and faith 3

Veteran’s issues 3

Homophobia 2

Child custody 1

Unknown or other 8

Let’s look at these patterns a little more closely and compare them to the conversations we have on The Good Men Project.

[Nitram]

1. America doesn't have an "ongoing masculinity crisis."

A certain percentage of every country's population suffers from mental illness. One of our biggest problems is that the mentally ill in this country have access to semi-automatic firearms until they actually commit a crime.