‘Damaged masculinity’ may help explain Columbine and other mass shootings

Washington Post ^ | April 20, 2016 | Michael S. Rosenwald

[The Continental Op]

Lots of truth in what you said. Add a bit of mental illness, psychotropic drugs and/or ritalin, loneliness, no girlfriend (they all seem have these factors in common) and a small percent go off. Some commit suicide, some commit unspeakable crimes.

[TYVets]

The one thing which still sticks in my mind is how cowardly the cops acted. Then when the kids started coming out the cops made them raise their hands in surrender.

I remember the Swat Team did not go into the building for almost 3 hours after they arrived.

One wounded teacher and some students had locked themselves in a room and did communicate with responders on the outside. The students treated the teacher as best they could, but the teacher died after a considerable length of time.

I remember is how slow law enforcement reacted.

[cherry]

millions of men grow up being non athletes, not good looking , not tall, not charming....they get over it....

I'm not taking any excuses....

Columbine was evil embodied in two young men who by all accounts decided to live in their own little pitiful hateful world...

[Jack Hammer]

The media loves their psychobabble.

[catnipman]

Utter nonsense.

Eric Harris was a sociopath at birth.

It’s that simple.

Read the book “Columbine” if one really wants to know what happened and why.

[equaviator]

Boys will be boys. /s

[ronnie raygun]

Liberals and the media more concerned about motive and a reason to excuse than the actual event and the pain it leaves behind, typical

[Chainmail]

I am sure that is the effect that we're seeing: young males who can't cope with the world as it is or themselves and end up killing. There aren't any other explanations for the school shootings.

Wait 'til you see what happens when the competition starts in combat units for the few females - and the jealous losers in those situations are really well armed.

[BobL]

“In the strangely American phenomenon of mass shootings”

Perhaps talk to the people in Paris or Norway about this ‘strange American phenomenon’. And those countries have BIG TIME gun control...which was the purpose of the above wording.

[Oratam]

Erich Fromm on what makes someone sadistic: “He is sadistic because he feels impotent, unalive, and powerless. He tries to compensate for this lack by having power over others, by transforming the worm he feels himself to be into a god.”

Damaged masculinity helps to explain black male violence in the U.S. and the unbelievable cruelty of ISIS. The cause of the damage may differ but in each case manhood has in some way been compromised.

[Rebelbase]

Parents who love themselves more than their kids contributes significantly.

[Vigilanteman]

Great read! Thanks for posting that link.