Right. You must know that I—that's why I do that, because people don't expect to hear from women like that. And I want other women to see me do that and I want women's voices to get louder.

Oh, definitely. Definitely. Women are being more forthright in their writing. There isn't a sense of timidity to when they speak or when they write. They're saying it loud. And I think that and I think, for me, as well, it's threatening at first.

Patriarchal ideology enlists a long list of mechanisms in service of this goal-including women's internalization of the relevant social norms, narratives about women's distinctive proclivities and preferences, and valorizing depictions of the relevant forms of care work as personally rewarding, socially necessary, morally valuable, "cool," "natural," or healthy (as long as women perform them).

Rodger didn't hate women deep down; he desired women too much, as opposed to too little (by being disgusted and repelled by them, or similar). He put "pussy on a pedestal," hence making him "the first feminist mass murderer," according to one well-known men's rights activist (Valizadeh 2014).[8]

Laurie Penny (2014) demurred that same day in the New Statesman, "For some time now, misogynist extremism has been excused, as all acts of terrorism committed by white men are excused, as an aberration, as the work of random loons, not real men at all. Why are we denying the existence of a pattern?"