In Girl Creeps and Boy Pussies Roxxi Wallace explores the touchy subject of alienation in postmodern American culture. She does so by citing examples of some of our most denatured male killers—boys who attacked the greater society in which they saw no place for themselves as men, and opted out.
“His sense of self decided he was entitled to anything he wanted—including women. Which is a surefire tactic for making women run the other way, if you’re a social retard like Rodger was. In the end, his rage toward others for overlooking him is what drove him to kill. He demanded attention and received none. He was perceived as nobody and died as the patron saint of desperation.”
Roxxi then goes on to discuss similar states of alienation among young women and the various methods in which they defy society, methods that tend to leave a lesser media trace in the societal mind.
Check out Roxxi’s work at TriggerPoint. I’m interested in what she writes next.
