Update: The original version of this article was headlined "Elliot Rodger’s Online Life Provides a Glimpse at a Hateful Group of Pick-up Artists." PUAHate was a message board for men who thought PUA was a scam, because its philosophies and strategies were not effective. Their community still subscribed to many of the basic PUA principles, however.Earlier today, police in California confirmed that Elliot Rodger is suspected of killing six people (three with a knife, three with a gun) before taking his own life this past Friday. In a YouTube video posted to Elliot's personal channel, he chalks his psychotic killing spree up to not being well-liked by women: “For the last eight years of my life, ever since I hit puberty, I’ve been forced to endure a life of loneliness, rejection, and unfulfilled desires. All because girls have never been attracted to me. Girls gave their affection, and sex, and love, to other men. But never to me. I’m 22 years old, and I’m still a virgin.”
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