The Gentleman

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We shouldn’t blame toxic masculinity for Toronto’s van attack

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-we-shouldnt-blame-toxic-masculinity-for-torontos-van-attack/

Excerpt: “The post also praised Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old who, in 2014, stabbed three men to death in his apartment before embarking on a shooting rampage in Isla Vista, Calif., killing three others and injuring 14 before taking his own life. In a manifesto Mr. Rodger wrote before his death, he expressed resentment about living a celibate, lonely life and his desire to inflict revenge on the women who had rejected him and the men whom they chose, instead of himself, as sexual partners.”