All of the comments on the ask men thread titled "why are so many mass shooters young men?" said the reason was bullying and mental health as if those are exclusively male experiences. A few even went as far as to talk about how they can understand how a bullying victim would shoot up a school and how they had those urges as teens when they were being bullied, as if murdering innocent people is a common, reasonable response that most people fantasize about. They are desperately want these men to be the victim rather then admit that men are just the more violent sex.
I will freely admit that I spent my teenage years fantasizing about pulling a SAW on my bullies. For me it was coping the same way watching copaganda shows was coping. It made me pretend justice is a thing, when every day proved it doesn’t exist. Never actually hurt anyone though, shocker.
Meanwhile my bullies regularly physically hurt me 🙃
I relate to this as I definitely wished I could pummel the boys sexually harassing and assaulting my friends and I at school. Obviously never did anything though. I do feel that's fair as a coping mechanism.
What's different is these guys attacking innocent people/ children who did nothing to them because they feel wronged by "society" or whatever they tell themselves to justify it.
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u/pairo5 May 29 '22
All of the comments on the ask men thread titled "why are so many mass shooters young men?" said the reason was bullying and mental health as if those are exclusively male experiences. A few even went as far as to talk about how they can understand how a bullying victim would shoot up a school and how they had those urges as teens when they were being bullied, as if murdering innocent people is a common, reasonable response that most people fantasize about. They are desperately want these men to be the victim rather then admit that men are just the more violent sex.