crazy article... the guy before Elliot Rodgers.... all these dudes racist as shyt too
Lonely man gunned down three women and shot himself at Pittsburgh gym in 2009, set tone for ‘incel’ mass murders
By David J. Krajicek
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
May 06, 2018 | 4:15 AM
Lonely man gunned down three women and shot himself at Pittsburgh gym in 2009, set tone for ‘incel’ mass murders - NY Daily News
Mourners gather outside the LA Fitness in Bridgeville,Pa., in August 2009 to remember the three women who had been fatally shot there. (Rebecca Droke/AP)
Alone on Christmas Eve 2008, a desperate Pittsburgh man named George Sodini sat at his computer and puzzled over his sexless life.
"Moving into Christmas again," he wrote in an online diary. "No girlfriend since 1984 . . . Who knows why. I am not ugly or too weird. No sex since July 1990 either . . . Over 18 years ago."
Sodini, 48, was flabbergasted since he saw himself as a catch.
He was fit and had gleaming bleached teeth. He owned a car and house, and his job as a law firm IT tech gave him money to spare — but no one to spend it on.
"I actually look good," he wrote. "I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne — yet 30 million women rejected me over an 18- or 25-year period."
Two weeks ago, a deadly van attack on Toronto pedestrians by another lonesome, loathsome man, Alek Minassian, brought new attention to a simmering substrate of males who call themselves involuntary celibates, or incels.
On Facebook, Minassian had tipped his hat to Elliot Rodger, the self-described "extraordinary gentleman" and suicidal virgin who rampaged against young women four years ago in Isla Vista, Calif., killing six people and himself.
Rodger began tallying perceived petty affronts by females when he was still in knee pants. He left behind a self-absorbed, 100,000-word account of his gripes, and his manifesto has created a lingua franca for the incel mutation of masculine toxicity.
Minassian gave a shoutout to the "incel rebellion," but its roots are primeval.
Lonely-hearted men for centuries have used sexual rejection as a murder motive, for both the mass and more limited varieties.
Sodini was a contemporary example.
"I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne — yet 30 million women rejected me over an 18- or 25-year period." George Sodini bemoaned his lack of success with the opposite sex. (Allegheny County Police via Getty Images)
Despite doing deep research (including seminars and books) on seduction, Sodini was still alone on New Year's Eve 2008. "No date tonight, of course," he wrote. On Jan. 5 he added, "This is the Auschwitz Syndrome, to be in serious pain so long one thinks it is normal."
The next day he decided to enact an "exit plan" of killing women at the gym where he worked out. But a diary entry at 10:45 that night reported, "I chickened out!"
His life seemed to improve in the ensuing months. He survived an April layoff amid the Wall Street meltdown. He had a date in May, and he got a promotion with a raise in July.
But he could never escape his own gloomy shadow.
"Life is over," he wrote on May 4.
Sodini lived in Scott Township, Pa. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)
"Women just don't like me," he added two weeks later, after the date.
"Everything still sucks," he wrote in an entry about the promotion. "Last time I slept all night with a girlfriend it was 1982. Proof I am a total malfunction ... There is something BLATANTLY wrong with me that NO goddam person will tell me what it is."
Perhaps it was misogyny and racism.
"Amerika has chosen The Black Man," he wrote after President Obama's election. "Good! Every black man should get a young white girl hoe to hone up on ... Black dudes have their choice of best white hoez."
Interracial romance can be a trigger for incels.
As Elliot Rodger put it, "How could an inferior, ugly black boy be able to get a white girl and not me?"
But Rodger and Sodini were apt to rage over any coupling.
Sodini was incensed when he saw a "beautiful college-age girl" leaving the home of a neighbor who was Sodini's age.
"I guess he got a good lay today," Sodini wrote. "College girls are hoez . . . I masturbate. Frequently. Some were simply meant to walk a lonely path in life."
Twelve days later, on Aug. 4, 2009, Sodini once again launched his exit plan.
Photos of the three slain women are seen on roses are placed outside LA Fitness. (Rebecca Droke/Post-Gazette via AP)
At 11 that morning he visited his gym, LA Fitness in suburban Pittsburgh, "to practice my routine and make sure it is well polished." He returned nine hours later with four handguns.
He paused to phone his mother, then entered at 8 p.m., as a women's aerobics dance class began. Thirty women had assembled for what they expected to be a fun, rousing workout.
Sodini stepped into their room at 8:15, switched off the lights, drew a pair of Glock semiautomatic pistols and began shooting.
He fired about 50 shots, hitting a dozen women. Three were killed: Jody Billingsley, 38, Elizabeth Gannon, 49, and Heidi Overmier, 46.
The killer then drew another gun and shot himself in the head.
Overmier's body is carried from her funeral in Bridgeville. (John Heller/AP)
Sodini was trying to untangle his knotted id to the very end. His final diary entry noted, "Probably 99% of the people who know me well don't even think I was this crazy. Told by at least 100 girls/women over the years I was a 'nice guy.' Not kidding."
He left notes in his gym bag and at home that echoed his diary's themes, and this record of laments has bestowed Sodini with postmortem celebrity among incels.
Sodini wrote that his contemplations might "shed insight" on his problems and "potentially benefit others."
But like Rodger, the best exclamation point to his pathetic life was a macho provocation.
As Rodger sat alone in his room in 2014 fondling a gun he had bought to kill innocent women, he wrote, "Who's the alpha male now, bytches?"
This was Sodini's demented parting shot: "Thanks for nada, bytches! Bye."
Lonely man gunned down three women and shot himself at Pittsburgh gym in 2009, set tone for ‘incel’ mass murders
By David J. Krajicek
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
May 06, 2018 | 4:15 AM
Lonely man gunned down three women and shot himself at Pittsburgh gym in 2009, set tone for ‘incel’ mass murders - NY Daily News
Mourners gather outside the LA Fitness in Bridgeville,Pa., in August 2009 to remember the three women who had been fatally shot there. (Rebecca Droke/AP)
Alone on Christmas Eve 2008, a desperate Pittsburgh man named George Sodini sat at his computer and puzzled over his sexless life.
"Moving into Christmas again," he wrote in an online diary. "No girlfriend since 1984 . . . Who knows why. I am not ugly or too weird. No sex since July 1990 either . . . Over 18 years ago."
Sodini, 48, was flabbergasted since he saw himself as a catch.
He was fit and had gleaming bleached teeth. He owned a car and house, and his job as a law firm IT tech gave him money to spare — but no one to spend it on.
"I actually look good," he wrote. "I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne — yet 30 million women rejected me over an 18- or 25-year period."
Two weeks ago, a deadly van attack on Toronto pedestrians by another lonesome, loathsome man, Alek Minassian, brought new attention to a simmering substrate of males who call themselves involuntary celibates, or incels.
On Facebook, Minassian had tipped his hat to Elliot Rodger, the self-described "extraordinary gentleman" and suicidal virgin who rampaged against young women four years ago in Isla Vista, Calif., killing six people and himself.
Rodger began tallying perceived petty affronts by females when he was still in knee pants. He left behind a self-absorbed, 100,000-word account of his gripes, and his manifesto has created a lingua franca for the incel mutation of masculine toxicity.
Minassian gave a shoutout to the "incel rebellion," but its roots are primeval.
Lonely-hearted men for centuries have used sexual rejection as a murder motive, for both the mass and more limited varieties.
Sodini was a contemporary example.
"I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne — yet 30 million women rejected me over an 18- or 25-year period." George Sodini bemoaned his lack of success with the opposite sex. (Allegheny County Police via Getty Images)
Despite doing deep research (including seminars and books) on seduction, Sodini was still alone on New Year's Eve 2008. "No date tonight, of course," he wrote. On Jan. 5 he added, "This is the Auschwitz Syndrome, to be in serious pain so long one thinks it is normal."
The next day he decided to enact an "exit plan" of killing women at the gym where he worked out. But a diary entry at 10:45 that night reported, "I chickened out!"
His life seemed to improve in the ensuing months. He survived an April layoff amid the Wall Street meltdown. He had a date in May, and he got a promotion with a raise in July.
But he could never escape his own gloomy shadow.
"Life is over," he wrote on May 4.
Sodini lived in Scott Township, Pa. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)
"Women just don't like me," he added two weeks later, after the date.
"Everything still sucks," he wrote in an entry about the promotion. "Last time I slept all night with a girlfriend it was 1982. Proof I am a total malfunction ... There is something BLATANTLY wrong with me that NO goddam person will tell me what it is."
Perhaps it was misogyny and racism.
"Amerika has chosen The Black Man," he wrote after President Obama's election. "Good! Every black man should get a young white girl hoe to hone up on ... Black dudes have their choice of best white hoez."
Interracial romance can be a trigger for incels.
As Elliot Rodger put it, "How could an inferior, ugly black boy be able to get a white girl and not me?"
But Rodger and Sodini were apt to rage over any coupling.
Sodini was incensed when he saw a "beautiful college-age girl" leaving the home of a neighbor who was Sodini's age.
"I guess he got a good lay today," Sodini wrote. "College girls are hoez . . . I masturbate. Frequently. Some were simply meant to walk a lonely path in life."
Twelve days later, on Aug. 4, 2009, Sodini once again launched his exit plan.
Photos of the three slain women are seen on roses are placed outside LA Fitness. (Rebecca Droke/Post-Gazette via AP)
At 11 that morning he visited his gym, LA Fitness in suburban Pittsburgh, "to practice my routine and make sure it is well polished." He returned nine hours later with four handguns.
He paused to phone his mother, then entered at 8 p.m., as a women's aerobics dance class began. Thirty women had assembled for what they expected to be a fun, rousing workout.
Sodini stepped into their room at 8:15, switched off the lights, drew a pair of Glock semiautomatic pistols and began shooting.
He fired about 50 shots, hitting a dozen women. Three were killed: Jody Billingsley, 38, Elizabeth Gannon, 49, and Heidi Overmier, 46.
The killer then drew another gun and shot himself in the head.
Overmier's body is carried from her funeral in Bridgeville. (John Heller/AP)
Sodini was trying to untangle his knotted id to the very end. His final diary entry noted, "Probably 99% of the people who know me well don't even think I was this crazy. Told by at least 100 girls/women over the years I was a 'nice guy.' Not kidding."
He left notes in his gym bag and at home that echoed his diary's themes, and this record of laments has bestowed Sodini with postmortem celebrity among incels.
Sodini wrote that his contemplations might "shed insight" on his problems and "potentially benefit others."
But like Rodger, the best exclamation point to his pathetic life was a macho provocation.
As Rodger sat alone in his room in 2014 fondling a gun he had bought to kill innocent women, he wrote, "Who's the alpha male now, bytches?"
This was Sodini's demented parting shot: "Thanks for nada, bytches! Bye."
. probably his only options were overweight single moms with baggage
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