In fact, while interviewing researchers for our new documentary, “The Mask You Live In,” we found that baby boys are more emotional at birth than baby girls. The cold, unemotional ideal of masculinity that Rodgers embraced is not an inevitable part of being a man. Need we forget that in the past few decades, nearly all of America’s public mass murderers have been men? And most have been white men. It’s too easy for men like Rodger to find support for their most extreme thoughts in American culture’s perpetuation of misogyny, racism and violence.
This sense of entitlement over all those who were different was affirmed whenever he went to the movies, watched pornography or played a video game.ĭidn’t our culture teach him it was his right to dominate the world and everyone in it? Yes, he struggled with mental health, but how many young women with mental health issues lash out in this way? Though he was half Chinese, Rodger identified with being white and expressed a particular hate for people of color. He saw ads that told him, as a man, he deserved the attention of women. And not just in the isolated community of misogynists he found comfort with online.Ĭertainly his virtual support system of “pickup artists” most vocally affirmed his beliefs, but Rodger walked by billboards daily that reinforced his thoughts that women were things to be controlled.
Yet, before that, Rodger was told by many that his attitudes did indeed make him a bigger man. Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Imran Siddiquee: The men we value – The Mercury News
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