Elliot Rodger - Incel Wiki
Elliot Rodger (alias: The Supreme Gentleman), or ER, was a HAPA incel of Chinese and British descent, who is most notable for being the perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista massacre. Rodger's life story and personal views have been prominently cited by the media as an example of an "incel hero"[1] who preceded what they seek to portray as a coherent "incel movement".[2] The media and academia have often described Rodger as the author of the modern incel ideology.
In the course of his short life, Rodger claimed to have suffered from a general lack of attention from women (partially, but not entirely, ascribed to his shyness), sexual frustration, and bullying and mistreatment from his peers. He was shy around women and, according to My Twisted World, his autobiography and "manifesto" he did not seem to seriously romantic approach one in person. He claims to have been mostly "ignored" by women throughout his life,[3] and he noted that he was bullied by other boys in high school for being shy around women.[4] The principal at his former high school described Rodger as "shy, socially awkward and very bright [...] Everything about him was soft-spoken, polite, a gentleman, very courteous. Just everything about him.”[5]
Together with what he portrayed as the injustices of society, his sexual frustrations were stated by him to be the primary factor that made him carry out his suicidal rampage attack in the affluent California suburb of Isla Vista, which resulted in 7 deaths (including his own suicide). This massacre was preceded by a rampage attack perpetrated by another autistic individual who was also the son of a Hollywood director thirteen years prior in the same area.[6] It is not known if this last massacre inspired Rodger. On the other hand, he was likely inspired by the actions of George Sodini, one of the first self-identified incel rampage killers in the modern age.
