Well, I don't know.
It's nice that the guy who wrote the article likes Bukowski (and funny that he's linking The Crunch from buk.net while saying: "Despite being ridiculously prolific, Bukowski would sometimes go back to his masterpieces and edit them before they were published or placed in an anthology" :confused:), but his basic message: Bukowski was ugly but still slept with a lot of women, so Elliot Rodger could have found comfort in that fact and just wait a little longer, is beside the point, to put it mildly.
There are all this articles and comments now, If Elliot Rodger had learned how to flirt he wouldn't have done it, If Elliot Rodger had had just one girlfriend he wouldn't have done it, if he'd gone to a prostitute he wouldn't have done it, If women would give sex out more easily and so on. Elliot Rodger was a lonely depressed frustrated socially awkward dorky male virgin who was pissed off at women and the world. A lot of men can identify with this situation because a lot of men know these feelings in one way or another at points of their lifes.
But very, very few men write a rambling 140 page manifesto, stab their three roommates to death in their sleep and then go on a killing spree to shoot six people because they feel they are the Supreme Gentleman and women and the world owe them love and sex.
If you watch Rodgers ramblings on youtube you see that this guy had very serious problems, to put it mildly again. And these problems were in his head and there mainly, if not only. He may have been bullied in school, he may have been lonely and through "hell" at college and all that. But it wasn't society or women or college or Santa Barbara, it was his head.
So people who now recommend for Rodger to read Bukowski or hit the clubs or learn how to flirt or meet a hooker are confusing the symptoms with the disease, I'm afraid. If it hadn't been women, it would have been something else.
The problem was between his ears.
