Feminism
The Right to Sex is a Book Men Should Read
Amia Srinivasan examines dilemmas and disputes in the Feminist movement. In doing so, she uncovers its ultimate benefit for everybody.
The word “incel” barely registered in public consciousness until 23 May 2014. That’s when Eliot Rodger, a twenty-two-year-old dropout, stabbed and shot to death six people and wounded more than a dozen others.
Halfway through his killing spree, Rodger uploaded a video on YouTube “Eliot Rodger’s Retribution” and emailed his 107,000-word memoir — “My Twisted World” — to several people, including his therapist and parents.
In that memoir he wrote that he was “forced to endure an existence of loneliness and insignificance, all because the females of the human species were incapable of seeing the value in me.” Rodger felt, being “half-white” (he was Anglo-Chinese), “beautiful” and “descended from British aristocracy”, that he was entitled to have sex with beautiful women.
He was denied this all his life. As part of his “retribution”, he decided to target the Alpha Phi sorority of UCSB because it contained the type of “hot beautiful blonde girls” who, because they wouldn’t have sex with him, were “spoiled, heartless, wicked bitches.”
