No offense, but the manosphere and the people on this forum are getting like the mainstream media, trotting out cliches instead of thinking things through.
A "Beta" would have hit paydirt by 150 women.
As I said on the thread in the "game" section about this, this man was mentally ill. It might have been low-grade mental illness, but it was mental illness nontheless.
No one, it seems, can deal with the fact that mental illness exists -- at least not when it comes to men. So instead the mainstream media looks to blame flags or "misogyny." The manosphere, meanwhile, trots out "Beta," hypergamy, etc.
When you have something like asthma or epilepsy, you can get it in degrees. Some people suffer every day. Others have episodes once a year. And so on.
So it is with mental illness. Some severely paranoid schizophrenics irrationally think UFOs are controlling them. Others are less mentally ill and irrationally see women or certain ethnic groups as monsters. I see this guy as being low-grade schizophrenic -- just "together" enough to pass for somewhat normal, but not normal enough to live a normal life and do things like get dates or have friends (he apparently had no friends).
While a lot of people might be bigots and harbor resentment against ethnic groups, the patterns in which this guy's thoughts worked should be a tip-off that his feelings went beyond bigotry and into the realm on metal illness.
Sorry for the lecture, but this is getting to be a sore spot with me. We should not be afraid to say "He's crazy!" when we see people like this guy, the church shooter, or Elliott Rodger. It's hard to assess mental illness (even shrinks don't do it right) but 100 years ago, people seemed to do it real quickly.
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When I was growing up, one of my friends was diagnosed with schizophrenia at around age 17. He looked normal. He was intelligent and a great artist. You'd talk to him and it would seem OK.
And then it would get...weird. He'd talk a little too much. The conversation would veer off into nonsensical tangents but they'd have tinges of brilliance. But, ultimately, this guy wound up with no friends and no girl because he was crazy and put people off.
It took a long time for his folks to admit he needed to be institutionalized. Eventually he got so paranoid they had no choice. Luckily he committed no violence, but by the end he was speaking of being a "white supremist" (his misnomer, not mine) where previously, he'd been a love-everyone-hippie-Deadhead. His paranoia manifested itself in terms of race, for some reason, out of the blue.
What his parents didn't do (thankfully) was look to the outside world to explain away his behavior. They looked to his brain and found it damaged. This is what the media and manosphere need to be doing. Actually, this is what the families of all these deluded men need to be doing -- but until the media sets the tone with this, people won't know to do it.
It's instructive, also, to realize that as difficult as it is for us to call a man out as mentally ill, the media instantly calls for "counseling" and mental health help for any woman who exhibits the same behavior. Let's not fall into that double standard.
End of lecture.
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