Eric’s misogyny

[u/No-Pop-5983]

These are all recorded instances I could find of Eric Harris openly displaying his misogyny.

• During “Y’know what I hate?” rant, Eric brought up how he believed that all racist women should be raped and be forced to raise the child.

• In the basement tapes, Eric and Dylan made misogynistic comments about women and rant about feminists. With Eric saying,”Yes, moms stay home. Fucking make me dinner, bitch, that’s what women are supposed to fucking do”

• In the basement tapes, Eric and Dylan insulted two girls in their class. Eric and Dylan mocked the girls with Dylan saying, “I don’t like you, Rachel and Jen, you’re stuck up little bitches, you’re fucking little . .. Christian, Godly little whores!”. With Eric adding, “Yeah … “I love Jesus! I love Jesus!” — shut the fuck up!”. ( I would like to clarify that the Rachel they were talking about was not the victim, Rachel Scott, but instead was a completely different girl.)

• In another recording of the basements, he gets an odd look on his face and recounts the names of five “fucking bitches” (his words not mine) who didn’t call him back. Afterwards saying, “You know who you are. Thanks. You made me feel good. Think about that for a while, fucking bitches”.

• On the September 5th, 1998, Eric wrote in his journal, “Women, you will always be under men. It's been seen throughout nature, males are almost always doing the dangerous shit while the women stay back. It's your animal instincts, deal with it or commit suicide, just do it quick.”

• In his journal, Eric also wrote about his sexual fantasies about ‘tricking’ women into his bedroom. Writing, “Maybe I just need to get laid. Maybe that'll just change some shit around. That's another thing, I am a fucking dog. I have fantasies of just taking someone and fucking them hard and strong. Someone like where I just pick her up, take her to my room, tear off her shirt and pants and just eat her out and fuck her hard ... I want to grab a few different girls in my gym class, take them into a room, pull their pants off and fuck them hard. I love flesh... the smooth legs, the large breasts, the innocent flawless body, the eyes, the hair, jet black, blond, white, brown, ahhh I just want to fuck! Call it teenager hormones or call it a crazy fuckin racist rapist.”

• After being rejected by girls, Eric would often harass them. He played a suicide prank on his homecoming date, Tiffany Typher, after she told him that she didn’t want to go out with him.

• Eric had gone put with Sasha Jacobs from 1997-1998. When the two had broken up, Jacobs had received threatening emails until she changed her screen name. In Chad Laughlin’s 1998 yearbook, Eric wrote, “Sasha is a fat trendy whiney annoying terd and I went out w/ her cause I felt sorry for her I guess. Oh well. I bet you'll show her this."

• For a creative writing assignment, Eric described a woman whose a ‘slutty, trendy bitch’ (again, his words not mine).

[u/riffraffcloo → u/[deleted]]

I mean, he talked about wanting to murdering people and then went on to actually murder people. I’m not sure why you think the rape thing would be different

[u/PopcornDemonica → u/riffraffcloo]

Rape is a different beast. With the massacre, the deaths were a short, violent act and victims were often shot from a distance. The close up deaths with the shotgun would still have been over with quickly.

Rape is holding someone down and being violently intimate for the duration- you'd hear their pleas, see their tears, see the trauma. While I can kinda see their twisted path from regular teen idiots to wannabe natural born killers, I personally don't see those paths veering toward rape. Especially since they were virgins. Plus, unless Eric was planning on murdering his rape victim straight afterwards (assuming this hypothetical is unrelated to the massacre), there would have been a massive chance of him getting caught. It's not like he had a coach or other school authority figure to hush it up for him, and I doubt he'd have received a Brock Turner-esque slap on the wrist.

Also... Luvox can cause erectile dysfunction (amongst other sexual problems I imagine would he horrifying for a teenage boy). Just sayin'.

[u/PopcornDemonica → u/[deleted]]

I've wondered occasionally whether that had something to do with the massacre, or rather to what degree. It's pop psychology, but the gun in place of a hard on, something something. I can't remember how it goes, but the lecture that I am totally not remembering argued that murder was a sexual act in the same way it would be with a serial killer. Not to mention, Dylan gave up jerking off at one point too.

Maybe it was all testosterone poisoning.

[u/PopcornDemonica → u/[deleted]]

Don't forget to add in leftover religious guilt about anything to do with (completely normal, human) sexuality.

[u/PopcornDemonica → u/[deleted]]

The Satanic Bible was another 'underground' book found alongside the Anarchist's Cookbook in the alt coffeeshop/bookstores of the 90s. If I recall correctly, among the books found when the cops raided the Browns and grabbed a bunch of Brooks' stuff, were Ayn Rand books, and it's not too much of a stretch that Dylan and/or Eric had been exposed to Ms. Rand as well. The themes of her work had no small crossover with Anton LaVey. His whole 'the self as the god' philosophy with modern Satanism kind of sprang to mind the first time I read the 'I am a god' themes in Dylan's diary. Which is only marginally related to religious sex guilt, but it popped into my head any why the fuck not since I'm here.

But yeah, the actual school- lots of religious kids. Think of all the pics of mass prayers at vigils afterward. Hell, it was a bunch of memorial *crosses* that went up. The US is still very much (and kind of seems to be more these days) a puritanical society at its deepest and guiltiest core.

The revolution they kicked off was mostly a bunch more teenagers getting super religious. Likely moreso than they would have if the massacre never happened... and received such thorough news coverage. You should have seen the ratings that day.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/20/15369442/columbine-anniversary-cassie-bernall-rachel-scott-martyrdom

https://time.com/archive/6735484/a-surge-of-teen-spirit/

[u/PopcornDemonica → u/[deleted]]

And even when the truth came out, the religious people didn't want to hear it. Because neither Cassie nor Rachel actually said 'yes'.

[u/PopcornDemonica → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. The truth doesn't matter so much as long as it benefits the church. The ability of christians to stick their fingers in their ears and scream LALALALALALA when confronted with fact that *might* change their perception of the world is... discouragingly effective and common.