An online firestorm has erupted following the Isla Vista killings. This past Friday night a 22-year-old man enacted his “Day of Retribution” by killing six and leaving seven injured. He intentionally targeted women. His express reason for the massacre was to prove himself an “alpha male” and take revenge on all the “sluts” who had rejected his sexual advances.
This is far from the first example of a young man claiming sexual frustration as justification for violence against women. Laurie Penny in the New Statesman, an online commentary site, notes several other examples of what she calls “misogynist extremism” — men killing women because their sense of entitlement as to what women “owe” them has not been satisfied.
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