Adding to the discussion just above here:
When studying abnormal psychology as part of getting my increasingly useful psych degree, a common pattern emerged with men who kill or attack women.
First, they want sex (naturally) but can’t get it. Maybe they’ve been treated poorly in their attempt to woo women. Maybe they’re not seen as desirable or as valuable mates (short, fat, ugly, socially weird, crap personality, not funny or fun, not successful). Maybe they’ve been done wrong in past relationships: humiliated, cheated on, emasculated.
Second, combine this with a number of other issues – physical abuse or neglect as a child, general sociopathy, “on the spectrum,” etc. – and you get a very bad-tasting stew of ingredients:
They want women and they also hate women.
It eats at them. They’re internally boiling. They’re usually socially isolated. They over-consume porn and get increasingly drawn to the violent or humiliating-to-females variety. Women become “bitches” and “whores”… but not for them (cue more frustration, humiliation, and emasculation).
Mix all that together and you get a man who may hurt a woman, whether he knows her or not. Super common with serial killers who prey on women. (I get a feeling that the guy who killed those college kids in Idaho – Bryan Kohberger – may be one of them.)
And while I’d never really heard of this Tate guy until recently, you can see how he would speak to some of those same broken men at some point in their downward spiral.
Finally, when some of these damaged dudes do get lucky and find their way into women’s panties, it often becomes toxic. They aren’t looking for a wife or girlfriend; they’re looking to put more notches in their bedposts, to conquer, to use. It’s a revenge-driven power trip combined with a destructive level of overcompensation. (Tate?)
