# RO: Man slaughters women because he can't get a girlfriend
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 5, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435 "2009-08-05T17:12:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/1 "2009-08-05T17:12:19Z")
You want RO? I’ll give ya RO:
[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/us/06shoot.html?hp](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/us/06shoot.html?hp)
I am so sick to death of testosterone poisoning and the fact that our culture has nurtured so many men to see violence as the way to get even and (often) get out. This one has the bonus of being a guy who specifically targets women in general because he can’t get a girlfriend. This love/hate relationship with women is everywhere in male culture. When men don’t respect women, when they only see them as sexual and support objects rather than equals and companions, this outcome is almost inevitable. Note also that his diary mentions “desirable women.” I will bet that it comes out that he only went after hot babes. It’s OK for HIM to have high standards but not OK for those women to reject him because of THEIR standards.
So, three women are dead and numerous others critically and seriously wounded, and this guy won’t have to see the lasting damage he inflicted. Way to go, dude, way to go.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/2 "2009-08-05T17:19:32Z")
Well, that didn’t help him get a girlfriend at all.
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### Author:  [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/3 "2009-08-05T17:30:14Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#):
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> You want RO? I’ll give ya RO:
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> [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/us/06shoot.html?hp](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/us/06shoot.html?hp)
> When men don’t respect women, when they only see them as sexual and support objects rather than equals and companions, this outcome is almost inevitable.
I’m just going by the excerpts, but it didn’t seem that way at all.
> [@](#):
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> “A man needs a woman for confidence. He gets a boost on the job, career, with other men, and everywhere else when he knows inside he has someone to spend the night with and who is also a friend.”
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### Author:  [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/4 "2009-08-05T17:37:49Z")
No, no it didn’t. Unless by “girlfriend” you mean “rusty iron pineapple” that he is with any luck currently being sodomized with in hell.
And testosterone poisoning? :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/5 "2009-08-05T17:38:42Z")
I’m sorry but what does RO mean?
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### Author:  [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/6 "2009-08-05T17:40:07Z")
> [@tacoloco](#):
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> I’m sorry but what does RO mean?
Recreational Outrage. It’s when a story makes you all filled with GRR inside but has no real effect on you or your life.
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/7 "2009-08-05T17:40:41Z")
Weird, I was just thinking about how feminized our whole culture is and how it seems to be designed to be overtly harmful to males. Ah well, to each their own strawman I guess.
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### Author:  [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/8 "2009-08-05T17:42:19Z")
Truly, it is society’s fault that the crazy man shot up a gym. That is the only possible explanation.
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/9 "2009-08-05T17:45:55Z")
And yet, if he had allowed himself to go to prison, I’m sure he’d have no end to requests from girls who want to be his girlfriend.
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/10 "2009-08-05T17:46:03Z")
As a card-carrying lonely man, I can’t help thinkinh that, judging by his actions, there’s a reason he couldn’t get a date.
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/11 "2009-08-05T17:47:03Z")
> [@buttonjockey308](#):
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> And testosterone poisoning? :rolleyes:
Yes, it’s that damn testosterone!
> [@](#):
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> Richard Walker, 23, of Tulsa, Okla., who is working in oil fields in the area, was playing basketball in the fitness center when the shooting began, and as he and others were running out of the gym, a woman who had been shot in the thigh collapsed in front of him. He picked her up and carried her about 50 yards.
See?
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### Author:  [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/12 "2009-08-05T17:48:44Z")
> [@Enderw24](#):
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> And yet, if he had allowed himself to go to prison, I’m sure he’d have no end to requests from girls who want to be his girlfriend.
Oddly, this is likely true. Crazy people who get sufficient notoriety, even for heinous crimes, commonly attract attention from equally (but not necessarily violent) crazy people wanting to date them.
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### Author:  [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/13 "2009-08-05T17:49:08Z")
Excerpts from this guy’s [online diary](http://abovethelaw.com/2009/08/kl_gates_shooter_george_sodini.php) provide plenty of material for lots of different axes to grind on.
> [@Crazy man who shot up a gym](#):
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> Maybe soon, I will see God and Jesus. At least that is what I was told. Eternal life does NOT depend on works. If it did, we will all be in hell. Christ paid for EVERY sin, so how can I or you be judged BY GOD for a sin when the penalty was ALREADY paid. People judge but that does not matter. I was reading the Bible and The Integrity of God beginning yesterday, because soon I will see them.
Clearly, it’s not sexism, it’s _Christianity_ that’s the problem.
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/14 "2009-08-05T17:49:09Z")
If he hadn’t killed himself, he would have had plenty of chances in prison to BE a girlfriend. That’s pretty close, isn’t it?
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### Author:  [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/15 "2009-08-05T17:54:37Z")
The [del]Devil[/del] society made him do it.
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/16 "2009-08-05T17:55:42Z")
It seems like somewhere along the line it became acceptable and the norm to hold men in contempt. Look at the tone of the OP. Testosterone poisoning? Out culture nurturing male violence? What the fuck? I say that our culture is suffering from acute estrogen poisoning and that it nurtures female contempt and stridency and that the lot of you need to shut the fuck up and go make me a sandwich.
Obviously it is somehow impossible to envision a world where one gender is elevated without the other being denigrated. Enough already.
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/17 "2009-08-05T18:01:39Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#):
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> It seems like somewhere along the line it became acceptable and the norm to hold men in contempt.
Dude, it’s _white_ men. Keep up.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/18 "2009-08-05T18:18:09Z")
Strange to read this story. I grew up about ten miles from here and used to go to Bridgeville all of the time.
Anyway, trying to make general societal points from the actions of the insane is probably not a great idea. Next thing you know someone will be trying to blame this on the Steelers or something.
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/19 "2009-08-05T18:24:16Z")
Dammit **Claire** , shut up and go make me a sandwich. And iron my shirt. And blow me.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-man-slaughters-women-because-he-cant-get-a-girlfriend/505435/20 "2009-08-05T18:24:21Z")
> [@Mr.Moto](#):
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> Anyway, trying to make general societal points from the actions of the insane is probably not a great idea. Next thing you know someone will be trying to blame this on the Steelers or something.
No, just during the Superbowl.
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