#YesAllMen need to take a hard look at what values they share with Elliot Rodger & their complicity in a culture that taught him entitlement
@katrinatraver and thereby guarantee that they will to a greater extent than if you'd admitted his basic humanity and lucidity.
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@katrinatraver everybody's desperate to say "monster!" because it means nothing we do needs examination, it was just one guy's problems. -
@katrinatraver this is an enormously destructive lie.
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@chaosprime I'm sorry? I don't understand what you just stated. -
@katrinatraver when we say Rodger was a monster, we're saying he's Not Like Us, he's some random occurrence that's nothing to do with us. -
@katrinatraver this is comforting to people because it means everything about them is okay. this is why people love stories about monsters. -
@katrinatraver but when it's *not true*, as with Rodger, whose motivations were based on v.popular ideas about masculinity, that's a problem -
@katrinatraver by just lumping Rodger in the "monster" bucket, you're dodging thinking about how masculinity fed into his atrocities. -
@katrinatraver that means that you cannot insulate your sons from those parts of masculinity, as taught by yourself or by everyone else. -
@chaosprime To me, that statement is the most dangerous. It's implications are that mothers have 0 control over their sons. -
@katrinatraver not saying that. you have plenty. saying that you can't use it effectively if you turn your face away from the problems. - 4 more replies
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