Comments on: Revenge Of The Nerd: What The Media Won’t Tell You About The Rampage Killer Who Attacked A Pittsburgh Aerobics Class

By: Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:23:49 +0000

“He understood that his sexual failure and anomie were part of a larger injustice and rigidity built into the current American narrative, a miserable narrative for most white males over the age of 25.”

Stop watching television, porn, gaysports and eating junkfood.

If you want to achieve something then stop masturbating. Healthy animal does not masturbate. Wanker is a wanker.

By: Jayo

Jayo — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:34:41 +0000

From Ireland – I have a lot of sympathy for this bloke and his many troubles. Clean, well dressed, respectable – he just couldn’t connect with other people and it was this inability and the fact that so many other dudes could connect – that ultimately distorted his world view – he got to a point where his rage boiled over and hit back. Not defending him but we could all be in his position.

By: scholar

scholar — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:03:59 +0000

I think that there are many cases such as his, but they usually end in simple suicide so they are not taken up by the media.

On one hand I kind of simpatize. OTOH he was a psycho with a constant desire to do the killing spree ASAP.

He was willing to accept help but how can anyone offer help if you do not ask for it?

May 4, 2009:

“I was always open to suggestions to what I am doing wrong, no brother or father (mine are useless) or close friend to nudge me and give it bluntly yet tactfully wtf I am doing wrong. A personal coach or someone who knows what he is doing would be perfect.”

By: awatcher

awatcher — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:32:06 +0000

Read this and it is dead on. I began a blog in this guys local home town paper. Doing well, and I have tried to show both sides of the story Had not read your blog until today. He was pro Gore, not racist, jealous a black guy was getting laid when he was not, but even up to 2 weeks before he did this he tried to ask a girl he knew where he tanned out. He had been teased at school, mostly by girls. His possible son did not deny he was not his son….. So, he may inherit all of Sodinis money in the end. A person who grew up down the doors from Sodini siad his mom and brother did ineed mistreat him. ALl the time.
Sodini gave the max allowed to the Obama campaign. A good post was made today in the Pitt News and he was a human had a family. But he was alone. People who knew him, I had to dig, all men, report was nice, polite and friendly and always cracking jokes. He did this to hide his loneliness. He was not a longer, but lonely. He kept trying to make the right contact. Thanks for the great analysis.

I think at the end of hte day, all these guys want to accepted and loved and understood FIRST and maybe if we do they will stop killing. As I write a mass axe attack was stopped in Germany. Another would be mass attack stopped by friends in the UK.

By: machete

machete — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:31:59 +0000

The belief that some gorgous woman will make your life fulfilled and meanigful is one of the myths for many. I had nothing. Nothing except for a 25 year-old former Mrs. Wisconsin. And she was a very successful swimsuit model. we are talking beyond a 10. sex? 3/day everyday. Bring girls in? if i wanted; I didnt. It was the nightmare of my life. i wouldnt go back to that for a million $’s. Meaning to life comes from the intangible. Money? i have made millions; doesnt give happiness either. This man had the notion that these things would bring happiness and meaning. He should have cranked out a few kids; he would have found meaning.

By: machete

machete — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:17:41 +0000

First, he was obviously crazy. Prostitution is available everywhere. But this guy wants “love”. This is a more recent phenomenon/entity. He wants a white woman? Great; go to ukraine or macedonia. all you want. this guy has loads of money; 250k? that is more than most. He wanted that long lasting bedmate? well he should have proposed to the one 30 years ago. but he didnt. it is brutal out there. always was. there is only so much wealth to go around. they could easily make it a law so that only white women can go with white men. but our liberals in government wont allow it.

By: someone

someone — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:06:14 +0000

Well, don’t you have prostitutes in Pittsburgh? Much more cost effective solution, I’d be damned if I ever miss times when I had a gf, all the time, money and nerve cells is wastes… I haven’t had unpaid sex for 4 years and I’m just 25. Not expecting to go postal either

By: Skeeve

Skeeve — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:13:39 +0000

I can’t resist another comment about Sodini’s lousy timing. It seems to me that if he’d just kept his powder dry for a few more years, and his head above water economically, he could have made it to the promised land. So many of the posts here refer to a middle-aged man’s increased chances with the opposite sex in third-world countries (fyi, a friend of mine recommends Costa Rica). That is, with young women who live far enough beneath the poverty line that they cannot afford to be as finicky as the average American gal.

Well, it seems to me that we’re almost there! Just a few more months of one million a month job losses and the inevitable crossover into double-digit inflation, and Sodini et al. will have a veritable smorgasbord of desperate American pussy looking for the next Big Mac. Just as when the poor Russian girls had to peddle their asses to survive the Soviet collapse, it’ll be Jennifer and Buffy’s turn (in the Peak Oil community, this is referred to as “humping for turnips.” Think Scarlett O’Hara). I remember reading that during the Great Depression, there we’re 30,000 or so wandering nymphs who offered themselves up sexually to survive, and that was way before the overt sexualization of our culture that’s been going on since the 1960s. Sodini, you poor sod, if only you’d waited…

By: Skeeve

Skeeve — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:09:29 +0000

I’d say Sodini missed his big opportunity for love when he turned the gun on himself. As a serial murderer on trial, he no doubt would have had dozens of women lined up to marry him. Reminds me of the old Bill Hicks routine about Ted Bundy and his many female admirers (“Just what are you ladies looking for, anyway?”). I’m always amused by the reaction to these stories about the loner male whose rubber band finally snaps. “He kind of kept to himself. Y’know, not a lot of friends…” And the inevitable, “You really have to watch out for those quiet loner types…”

Meanwhile, the extroverted alpha males that women habitually choose as their mates are happily wrecking the planet and leading us down the path towards world war. Not that women can help it, of course, having been programmed by billions of years of evolution to seek aggressive assholes like George Bush to spawn with. And so it goes, and will probably keep on going until we reach the long-overdue and justly deserved extinction of our species. Just once, though, I’d like to hear, after high-status dickhead like Bush starts a war that kills a million people, “He was very outgoing, you know, had a lot friends. Everyone liked him…” I’d say it’s those gregarious extroverts you have to watch out for…

By: Meatball

Meatball — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:52:17 +0000

Damn you still talking about this loser? Yeah, blah exitential blah Everyone…Look. Dude had 250K and didn’t spend any of it on a hooker?? LOSER

By: Francois

Francois — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:22:36 +0000

It’s true that 99% of the W4M adds on CL casual encounters are fake. But that 1% is priceless. I hooked up with a sexy thick DD cupped married 27 YO black woman who posted an add for “NSA sex.” We we had a wild encounter in the back seat of my truck in the parking lot of a shopping center that involved oral, vaginal and anal sex. She stopped to call her husband and tell him she was going to be coming home from “shopping” later than expected. The catch is the small number of women looking to do stuff like this only want to do it with very good looking, well built, well hung guys.

By: Fabian

Fabian — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:56:41 +0000

It troubles me how many people here are so eager to keep Sodini at arm’s length by calling him “mentally ill”. And that’s what it is – a desire to make him into something alien, unhuman, so we can go to bed at night thinking we’re all so much different than him. While I understand the motivation, there are some problems with that argument. First off, calling the guy mentally ill absolves him of any responsibility for what he did. In a court, they call it “not guilty by reason of mental defect”, and while I’m not a doctor, I don’t think the evidence points in the direction of mental illness. No, the more disturbing idea is that he had all his wits about him, and through a long process of deliberation he decided this was the only way for him to make a difference in the world. That possibility scares the hell out of people, because then literally anyone could follow the same line of reasoning and pursue the same actions if they chose. I think a commenter above pointed out that the FBI can’t predict the actions of “spree killers”. That’s proof that spree killers aren’t mentally ill – they’ve freely decided to do what they do. Does Sodini point to a deeper problem in our society? I think so. There’s just too much on this topic to go into here, but suffice it to say, there are a lot of changes that have happened in the last 40 years, from women’s rights to media to economic changes that have lent themselves to the creation of the Sodinis of the world. Yes ladies, not to excuse the man’s actions, but your attitudes and behaviors do have a role to play in this sort of thing, and it’s high time you started realizing that. Men and women need each other. Going for long periods of time without social connection is not healthy. Some people just don’t know how to break out of their “funk” in this regard. On the female side of things, I was reading about the dramatic increase in the suicide rate of middle aged women who’ve never been married. Modern society is exacting its toll on everyone today. My hope is that one good thing can come out of this crime – we can have more discussions about this.

By: Bil

Bil — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:58:11 +0000

All I know is that no one shoots the house up because they can’t get a date. I can’t put my finger on why the MSM continues to push a story about a man full of hate for women when it was obvious to me that it more to this tragedy. But as I read in a earlier post this week one describe it as ( Falling Down Syndrome). Sodini writings points to it. Lets all hope that it doesn’t continue to happen to others under the pressures of today.

By: maria

maria — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:09:24 +0000

Ghost, don’t go to hookers, by no means! Better buy a ticket to Russia. There are many virgins of your age and a bit younger in Russia, and believe me a lot of them are not ugly. Go to libraries or museums, choose the prettiest girls and fall in love. If you smile and say you are from america this would be enough for them to get interested. Just hint them you are virgin who wants to have a family and you will be treated like a present of heavens, girls will run after you! Those who are over 25 faster than the rest of course, because in their childhood America was a magic unavailable country, like a place from fairy-tales, where pinces live. Some may critisize America now, but shades of this fairy-tale attitude are still present in their subconsciousness.

By: Topaz

Topaz — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:44:26 +0000

@ Ghost:

Google the term “involuntary celibacy.” You’re not the only one out there, man. Maybe one day there will be available help for this situation that involves more than resorting to hookers, or more than solitary blind quests.

By: Asperger rendition flight

Asperger rendition flight — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:23:50 +0000

I agree with other posters that Thailand is probably the most obvious and effective solution here.

Ok, just half seriously now, how are places like Thailand and the Philippines, where hundreds of thousands of Western men now go each year (to, er, see temples. And elephants…), how are they not defacto aspects of the mental health system??

Handing out vouchers and subsidies to people like this shooter could help. 200 yrs from now they’ll being doing this.

Haar, imagine how un-PC the government checklist to qualify would be… yet, ‘strangely’ effective…

All these I.T. dudes and asperger barcode collectors who *never* saw (unsimulated) daylight will be walking around with healthy, natural tans….

By: scott w

scott w — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:07:29 +0000

I read the story and as many of the comments as I could stomach but no time for the real diary. Sure, you can sympathize with this loser. It is sad that there are losers in the world. Many of us have been a loser at one time or other. If you are a loser you need to find out why and then do whatever it takes to change that.

Some of you think he could not go to Russia or Thailand or find a prostitute because he was not that kind of guy. He was however the kind of guy to kill a bunch of people. He could have turned all that energy into changing hisself but Nooooo, he was too busy being a loser and probably a nutcase also.

There was a popular idiot loser on the net named woo who was the same way. He was a total loser who could never be anything else no matter what help he was given. He just could never be anything but who he was, a loser. He believed that he did everything perfectly, he was perfect in fact, to his mind so why could he possibly be a loser. He is still a loser after many years now but he found Russia and every other sex paradice and he went on to fully believe that he was a total hunk, basically because prostitutes told him he was a hunk.

So what I am saying is do not look at this guy as normal. He was probably normal once but he was long gone a few years back. He probably got good advice or could have found it but chose not to take it. Anything could have saved him and he could have done many things short of killing a bunch of women but that is the route he chose to take.

By: Pat Barker

Pat Barker — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:05:26 +0000

This man is a serial killer. He will do it again soon, if not already. He is really sick.

By: JD

JD — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:19:40 +0000

Haha..You got my “editors note.” Glad I could be of assistance. I’m available for interviews all next week..Ok, seriously..

You should do a followup commentary on the fact that last Saturday, in Pittsburgh, a lone Gunmen awaited and killed 3 police officers that that he called to his home. His motives were probably different, and the place of the crime was different, but it seemed like a ‘Gone Postal’ style massacre all the same. And 3 cops! c’mon thats as significant as the other story…and in the same town and close to the same date..that seems newsworthy to me…check it out.

By: JD

JD — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:31:46 +0000

Anyway, yes it can be tough and lonely in the USA, if you never really learn how to capture women. Most guys dont. How many more guys are out there in this exact same situation? It would be scary to do the math. Its not their fault and it sucks. But Why couldnt he have dropped everything, taken his savings, and gone to Thailand to teach english and bang for the rest of his able bodied life? Or the Phillipines? They speak english there. Its not difficult to find a wife in those countries. Then its free! Anyway, sad story.