tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post6063058759326252800..comments2023-10-14T09:40:06.690-05:00Comments on Jean Kazez: Why?Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-8598054370266184752014-06-02T16:32:09.784-05:002014-06-02T16:32:09.784-05:00There is no such thing as rape culture. That'...There is no such thing as rape culture. That's an unsubstantiated feminist invention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-76999945224656931572014-05-31T19:44:19.591-05:002014-05-31T19:44:19.591-05:00I guess there's something pathological about i...I guess there's something pathological about it. Sane people (in Erich Fromm's sense of the word "sense" at least) don't go on killing sprees.<br /><br />Still, there's a fearsome rationality to this: he didn't imagine that his victims were Martians or even that the Vatican and Mossad were involved in a conspiracy to destroy him. His world vision is more s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-6304627843035888442014-05-31T16:21:02.689-05:002014-05-31T16:21:02.689-05:00Maybe so. He had a whole lot of status preoccupati...Maybe so. He had a whole lot of status preoccupations, and maybe this was just one of them (though he didn't realize it). He was someone who was almost a part of glamorous, rich, high status LA culture, but not quite. He really didn't seem to get recognition for anything at all. Part way through his mother tells him he's a good writer (he is!) and he has the idea he should write a Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-67347284717470641192014-05-31T15:57:40.125-05:002014-05-31T15:57:40.125-05:00Jean,
From what you say, I'm more and more...Jean,<br /><br />From what you say, I'm more and more convinced that his rage was due to lack of status recognition, not sex. <br /><br />Someone who was sex-crazed would have raped, I imagine. <br /><br />He seems to have thought, not entirely incorrectly, that having sex with high status women would "earn" him that status recognition he lacked (you say he had "no s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-24373425863011465292014-05-31T11:29:20.429-05:002014-05-31T11:29:20.429-05:00Thanks for the thoughtful comment.
Before he mov...Thanks for the thoughtful comment. <br /><br />Before he moves to Santa Barbara he is really lost--seems to have no sense of being good at anything or moving in any direction. He is totally focused on feeling rejected and inadequate. The bullying in high school makes things much worse. His parents do intervene with therapists and "life coaches" so it's not as if nobody tries to Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-36952606473015166522014-05-31T11:17:53.956-05:002014-05-31T11:17:53.956-05:00There is so much that is shocking about this event...There is so much that is shocking about this event, it is hard to even discuss. So, thank you, Jean for diving in to make some sense of something so senseless. Those of us who studied sociology will remember the term "anomie," and this child seems to fit into that frame. He belongs nowhere. He can make no connections. Was this something underlying his biology, his mental chemistry? Or, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-71937420707134643812014-05-30T20:09:00.353-05:002014-05-30T20:09:00.353-05:00Josh, Fair enough, the twisted ideas about sex mig...Josh, Fair enough, the twisted ideas about sex might be internalized from the cultural, but why are they sexist? Isn't the cultural idea that both men and women can impress by having an impressive partner? It's ugly to think of a partner as a status symbol, but it goes both ways.<br /><br />Amos, Yeah, that's a mystery. He is only interested in "hot girls," "tall Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-29756402487836956772014-05-30T19:58:28.565-05:002014-05-30T19:58:28.565-05:00I haven't read his manifesto, but he must hav...I haven't read his manifesto, but he must have been insanely competitive and envious and maybe the culture he lived in was also insanely competitive and envious.<br /><br />First of all, it's hard to believe that no woman was interested in him. Maybe none of the popular or conventionally sexually desireable women showed much interest in him, but just as there are always male s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-28464847833930720042014-05-30T18:55:50.536-05:002014-05-30T18:55:50.536-05:00You say he didn't get these ideas from "i...You say he didn't get these ideas from "immersion in a sexist culture," but surely his twisted ideas about sex (its transactional nature, the idea of girlfriend-as-status-symbol, etc.) are all products of a sexist culture. And the link between sex and violence isn't hard to link to sexist culture and rape culture. The helpless heroine being rescued by the vigorous knight and Josh Rosenauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07304209937998935215noreply@blogger.com