George Sodini couldn’t get laid.
So he decided to open fire on an aerobics class full of women to get his sexual fix.
He killed three of them. Wounded a handful of others, including the pregnant instructor.
He wrote in his online diary that he was frustrated by his “lonely” life. He wrote that, “It seems many teenage girls have sex frequently. One 16 year old does it usually three times a day with her boyfriend. So, err, after a month of that, this little [expletive] has had more sex than ME in my LIFE, and I am 48. One more reason.”
Not once does he attribute his (most likely) social awkardness. Rather, it was his intensity, acquired thanks in part to classes that taught him to “not be so nice” when pursuing what he wants (incuding women) taught by R. Don Steele, a self-proposed dating expert (with a very shaddy web site).
Sodini didn’t rape anyone up to the shootings, molest, or interrogate (at least we don’t know).
It is when awkwardness becomes an excuse to harm others that we have to turn away from the justification of feeling like an outsider.
And when we have to take a deeper look at the awkward-provoked actions of killers and their deliberate intentions of harm toward women, and like NY Times writer Herbert makes a concrete point about in his op-ed column this week, realize that women’s equality with men still remains in the distance.
I’d like to see a woman kill a random man because the male race rejected her.
