There’s a Difference Between Misogyny and Severe Mental Illness

New York Magazine ^ | Jesse Singal

[Nifster]

He developed his problems after his folks divorced. More likely he had organic causality but triggered by the divorce

[backwoods-engineer]

obviously his sickness and fantasies would have taken on a different form if he’d been raised in, say, a devoutly religious community rather than a secular and sex-focused one

Clearly, Christianity is to blame. /sarc

[nickcarraway]

Other than some unattributed statements in articles, do you have any proof he was treated at a young age. In his autobiography, he seems to complain about what his parents do, but he never mentions seeing any mental health professional. He talks about a social skills adviser when he is older.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

You could take out two kids playing video games on a couch and the third one wouldn’t even notice.

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe he drugged his roommates before slaughtering them. He planned to slowly torture them while still alive. He also planned to take several ODs of pills AND shoot himself with 2 guns before the cops could close in on him after his rampage. He shot himself with at least one gun.

The media has been hush as to whether his roommates WERE merely stabbed or more viciously butchered and whether he had any drugs (prescription or otherwise) in his system/possession at the time of his death.

[a fool in paradise]

In the “hookup culture” you are considered to be abnormal if you are still a virgin at 22. This is part of the media driven hype that helped this creep feel inadequate.

[SoFloFreeper]

True.

Misogyny is what you hear in the lyrics of Lil’ Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Pit Bull, and a variety of other rappers.

Mental illness is what that murderer in Santa Barbara exhibited.

[livius]

The only “proof” I have is what I read in the press. But what “proof” does everybody here have for saying his parents are evil people?

[livius]

Paranoid schizophrenia is not caused by having one’s parents get divorced.

[Nifster]

I didn’t say it was. And since no doc who treated him has declared him to have been that your comment is pointless. The young man was beyond troubled but he started going to counselors shortly after his parents divorced (and that is public info available in multiple stories)