- The most frequently retweeted #YesAllWomen post
By now you’ve probably heard all about Elliot Rodger, the California college student who decided to punish all the women who wouldn’t sleep with him and were responsible for his being a virgin at the age of 22 by going on a shooting rampage in Santa Barbara last Friday night. He killed six other students and then—this is how these stories always end—himself.
“They have an intense hatred of women as a group. They don’t believe women should be entitled to choose. As a guy, you put effort into your appearance and tricks. What’s your reward? They’re denigrating women’s intelligence and judgment, like they’re not intellectually and morally capable of choosing the right man. It’s all tied together in hatred and fear of women, ‘aggrieved entitlement,’ as Michael Kimmel calls it.
“It’s either going to tip or not,” Harding predicted. “If not, I’m going to scream. It’s maddening. We talk about it, and guys tell us to lighten up. We’ve been lightening up all our lives. It wears on you. It restricts our ability to participate in society fully. This is definitely an opportunity to have a real conversation about this in a way there hasn’t in the past.”
