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ebonlockYes, still more unrelentingly dumb commentary on the V Tech shootings:
Camille Paglia, professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and author of Sexual Personae, believes Cho is emblematic of the crisis of masculinity in America. “Women have difficulty understanding the mix of male sexual aggression with egotism and the ecstasy of self-immolation,” she says. Or to quote Martin Amis on that other killer, Fred West: he became “addicted to the moment where impotence becomes prepotence”. […]
Cho is a classic example of “someone who felt he was a loser in the cruel social rat race”, Paglia says. The pervasive hook-up culture at college, where girls are prepared to sleep with boys they barely know or fancy, can be a source of seething resentment and alienation for those who are left out.
“Young women now seem to want to behave like men and have sex without commitment. The signals they are giving are very confusing, and rage and humiliation build up in boys who are spurned again and again.”
Yeah, it's all the women's fault! If they'd only dated (but not slept with!) him everything would've been just fine. But wait, there's more:
“Young women now seem to want to behave like men and have sex without commitment. The signals they are giving are very confusing, and rage and humiliation build up in boys who are spurned again and again.”
So if I'm understanding this all correctly Cho went on a killing spree because the women around him were too promiscuous with most guys but not promiscuous enough with him which undermined his masculinity and created rage and humiliation. And as we all know the natural outcome for this kind of thing is to go buy a couple of semi-automatic weapons and shoot 'til you feel better. I have to imagine that these morons keep coming up with goofier and goofier theories on purpose, to keep the rest of us from actually talking about the real issues regarding gun control, the plight of the mentally ill, and the need for a higher level of legal response to the problem of stalking. I mean if the problem here is just liberalism or feminism then we don't have to have a serious discussion that actually, you know, makes some goddamn, positive change and saves lives. Much simpler to just spend our time coming up with even fruit-loopier explanations for why Cho snapped and went on his spree.
Camille Paglia, professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and author of Sexual Personae, believes Cho is emblematic of the crisis of masculinity in America. “Women have difficulty understanding the mix of male sexual aggression with egotism and the ecstasy of self-immolation,” she says. Or to quote Martin Amis on that other killer, Fred West: he became “addicted to the moment where impotence becomes prepotence”. […]
Cho is a classic example of “someone who felt he was a loser in the cruel social rat race”, Paglia says. The pervasive hook-up culture at college, where girls are prepared to sleep with boys they barely know or fancy, can be a source of seething resentment and alienation for those who are left out.
“Young women now seem to want to behave like men and have sex without commitment. The signals they are giving are very confusing, and rage and humiliation build up in boys who are spurned again and again.”
Yeah, it's all the women's fault! If they'd only dated (but not slept with!) him everything would've been just fine. But wait, there's more:
“Young women now seem to want to behave like men and have sex without commitment. The signals they are giving are very confusing, and rage and humiliation build up in boys who are spurned again and again.”
So if I'm understanding this all correctly Cho went on a killing spree because the women around him were too promiscuous with most guys but not promiscuous enough with him which undermined his masculinity and created rage and humiliation. And as we all know the natural outcome for this kind of thing is to go buy a couple of semi-automatic weapons and shoot 'til you feel better. I have to imagine that these morons keep coming up with goofier and goofier theories on purpose, to keep the rest of us from actually talking about the real issues regarding gun control, the plight of the mentally ill, and the need for a higher level of legal response to the problem of stalking. I mean if the problem here is just liberalism or feminism then we don't have to have a serious discussion that actually, you know, makes some goddamn, positive change and saves lives. Much simpler to just spend our time coming up with even fruit-loopier explanations for why Cho snapped and went on his spree.
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Date: 2007-04-23 06:37 pm (UTC)The "well, X happened to _me_, but _I_ didn't do Y" argument more or less invalidates any argument that a person's environment can be a factor in the bad decisions they make.
Mind you, that may well be your opinion across the board, and if it is, I'm sorry for wasting your time.
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Date: 2007-04-24 12:45 am (UTC)But there's such a thing as personal responsibility. No matter how alienated and rejected one feels, there's no excuse for gunning down a bunch of people.
He did manage to learn the number one American dysfunction - not being able to tell the difference between responsibility and blame, which has been continually reflected in our media.