Why do so many straight men come to resent the women they find attractive? | Moira Donegan

To be able to experience sexual attraction without it becoming a source of rage requires a degree of respect that the Atlanta suspect, and men like him, do not possess

It's unclear if Robert Aaron Long, the 21-year-old white man who killed eight people on Tuesday - seven of them women, and six of them Asian women - in a mass shooting across three different massage parlors in the Atlanta area, even knew his victims' names. After he was arrested and taken into police custody unharmed, Long promptly took responsibility for the shootings. He told officers that he had frequented the massage parlors, which appear to sell sexual services, and that he considers himself to be suffering from a sex addiction". He claims that he shot up the massage parlors in order to rid himself of temptation". By temptation" he means, presumably, the temptation that was presented by the women's existence, and which he thought could be eliminated once they were no longer alive.

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