Misogyny, like other mental constructs wherein there is a “superior” and an “inferior” subdivision of a given population, can occasionally have deadly effects when someone who is subjected to this double-standard thinking is mentally unbalanced. This is outright frightening. Something bothers me even more about this event than the school shooting rampages you hear about practically daily. Maybe it’s because I just joined a gym… or maybe it’s because of the novelty of the location. Either way, this is bound to cause a resurgence in discourse about gun control.

Update: Holy shit, I wasn’t expecting this to have a religious aspect, seriously. People might start thinking I have an axe to grind or something!

Apparently, according to the shooter’s online diary (Google cache as it’s been taken off the web), a pastor convinced him that one can commit mass-murder and still get into heaven:

Tetelestai Church in Pittsburgh, PA – “Be Ye Holy, even as I have been Ye holy! Thus saith the lord thy God!”, as pastor Rick Knapp would proclaim. Holy shit, religion is a waste. But this guy teaches (and convinced me) you can commit mass murder then still go to heaven. Ask him. Call him at (xxx) xxx-xxxx.

More info at Your Religion Is False.