Insanity, Not Misogyny

Heather MacDonald writes for National Review about the UCSB killings. She derides the emphasis on anti-feminist violence, inasmuch as four of the six persons Elliot Roger killed were male. MacDonald makes some interesting points, including the following four:

There is no pattern of gender-based rampages in this country; there is an emerging pattern of rampages by the untreated mentally ill.

Rap music is the one cultural locus that may legitimately be described as misogynist, but of course, the academy and its orbiting feminists are assiduously silent about rap’s portrayal of “ho’s” and “bitches.”

Rodger’s pathetically grandiose final video bespeaks an entitlement mentality, more than a misogynist one. He believes himself entitled to whatever he wishes for — in this case, college sex — and licensed to kill because he hasn’t gotten what he wants.

By all means, let us try to “end violence against women,” as the feminists say. (snip) We should also be trying to end violence against men. And when it comes to mass slaughter, the best hope for doing both is by treating mental illness, not by railing against the imaginary patriarchy.

Maybe "treating" but more likely warehousing the mentally ill.