Unlike most of the recent mass killers, UC Santa Barbara spree killer Elliot Rodger used both knives and guns. His first three victims where his male Chinese-American roommates; he stabbed them to death with a knife. Then he got in the BMW his rich daddy gave him and started shooting what he considered to be snooty sorority girls and their male companions. Because one of his targets was women who had rejected his sexual advances, it has stirred up the ‘violence against women’ and ‘rape culture’ discussion yet again.
There is the usual speculation around how he fell through the proverbial mental health cracks:
Did Elliot Rodger’s Therapists Fail? What prevents law enforcement and mental health professionals from stopping a killer?
“… Last week, Elliot Rodger killed six people in Isla Vista, California. Like [Adam] Lanza, Rodger was mentally ill. Unlike Lanza, Rodger had extensive contact with both mental health professionals and law enforcement authorities. Rodger’s parents had long been concerned about his erratic behavior. A lawyer for Rodger’s father said Elliot Rodger had been seeing multiple therapists. Santa Barbara police visited his apartment six months before the shooting but found nothing in his demeanor to be concerned about. …”
https://www.slate.com/articles/healt...recognize.html
Of course the media is getting a well-deserved flogging:
Santa Barbara killings: Is the Hollywood debate worth having again?
“While trying to draw a straight line between Hollywood and violence is simplistic and potentially counter-productive, say some experts, it is also important not to dismiss the relationship out of hand. …”
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Societ...h-having-again
Another potential contributing factor rarely discussed is the use and influence of psychotropic [psychiatric] drugs:
Nearly Every Mass Shooting In The Last 20 Years Shares One Thing In Common, And It Isn’t Weapons
“… The overwhelming evidence suggests the single largest common factor in all of these incidents is that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes. …”
https://worldtruth.tv/nearly-every-m...-isnt-weapons/
But there is something else that seems to be driving young, white, American males to pick up a weapon, usually one or more guns with high-capacity clips, and start killing people:
“As early as 1945 the connection of circumcision-induced homicidal and suicidal rages was established in a child as young as 6 years old.[3] This article also connects PTSD, then called Combat Neurosis, to such early surgeries and may be a reason the USA and U.S. Military personnel are highly susceptible.
Degrees and intensity vary with age and higher when young. Pre-verbal trauma is not easily accessed by regular memory and much resides in the unconscious. Verbal conscious memory increases the awareness of betrayal. Traumatic frustration occurs and remains with both verbal and Pre-verbal. In essence, circumcision related violent behavior is expressed from being a Sacrifice Returned.
… America’s circumcision is an adopted habit of socialized violence through Cultural Imperialism. The result is cycles of violence and betrayal.[4] These cycles reside in a sense of Betrayal resulting in a Transference of Aggression onto other persons in other acts of Betrayal. Besides the individual, the Transference of Aggression is expressed socially between one group and nation against another. Transference is a deliberate choice and the substitute object is the genitals.
Transference is the deliberate displacement of one’s unresolved conflicts, dependencies, and aggressions onto a substitute object.
Original FBI’s Criminal Profilers who led the Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia know circumcision is a factor in some serial killings and partly responsible for America’s generalized asocial violence.
It has been inferred by Robert Ressler, in an off the record comment when interviewed by Mothering Magazine’s web-editor, related the fact that the FBI realizes circumcision is a factor in violence. He explained they do not mentioned this because they would be considered raving lunatics and lose their jobs. Robert Ressler coined the term ‘Serial Killer.’
This attitude pervades throughout Law Enforcement from the U.S, Department of Justice down to local Sheriff Departments and Child Protective Services. Many have no clue, the same as the parents who are conned into the ritual. The Con is the criminal approach used to lure victims.
In Norway, the only country that records the circumcision status of rapists, 2% of the population are circumcised and commit more than 80% of their rapes. And, since 1991 almost all wars involved one circumcised country with some conflicts between both factions being circumcised. This includes all USA conflicts since Vietnam.
No other statistical records are kept regarding the individual and social percentile circumcision status of serial killers or rapists. Yet, over 50% of rapes in Sweden are perpetrated by the minority of men who belong to circumcising cultures. Circumcision status may factor highly in the USA’s highest of all other country’s incarceration rate to population. …”
https://www.salem-news.com/articles/...iolence-rm.php
From the Circumcision Resource Center: Psychological Impact of Circumcision on Men
https://www.circumcision.org/impact.htm
"I feel violated and abused."
American man circumcised when he was an infant
"What's done to children, they will do to society."
Karl Menninger, psychiatrist
"A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not."
Lenore Terr, M.D., child psychiatrist
"If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children."
Mahatma Gandhi
"We are interconnected. When a baby boy's sexuality is not safe, no one's sexuality is safe."
Ronald Goldman, Ph.D., author of Circumcision, The Hidden Trauma : How an American Cultural Practice Affects Infants and Ultimately Us All
And one more thing —
“Pick-Up Artist” Site on Mass Shooting: ‘More People Will Die Unless You Give Men Sexual Options’
https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/05/26/3441585/anti-woman-site-predicts-more-deaths/
Here’s an idea: give ALL American men the ‘sexual option’ of deciding for themselves whether or not they want a normal sex life and normal sexual pleasure with a complete, fully-functioning normal penis.
Whether we realize it or not, or want to acknowledge it or not, the United States is a patriarchal genital cutting culture. Rape culture and genital cutting culture go hand in glove. If you want to end rape culture and stop creating men who are sexually violent, then stop inflicting sexual violence on boys.
