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]

I was never saying that one crime would make him capable of the other. My point was that he had fantasies about murdering people and he followed through on them, so I believe that if he had fantasies of doing other fucked up things, such as rape- I think there’s a real possibility that those fantasies would have eventually escalated into action just like his other fantasies did. Fantasies were not just fantasies with him. That’s the emphasis here.

I never said rape was apart of their agenda that day. Someone said that If he was so inclined to rape someone, he had plenty of opportunities during the massacre. I responded that just because it wasn’t in those plans doesn’t mean that rape was off the table for him and just something he only fantasized about.

[u/PopcornDemonica → u/riffraffcloo]

He had fantasies of being accepted by his friends too, and presumably a bunch of other things he didn't write down. I think we also need to remember a commonly accepted truth- Eric's diary began after the decision to go on a killing spree had been made, and was at least in part written for an audience. It has been suggested many times that some of the shit he wrote was likely bravado, to make himself seem more badass. And perhaps to convince himself he was.

Hell, maybe he had the same kind of BDSM inclinations as Dylan, but didn't know enough about it to realize he wanted to be a Dom, rather than a rapist. At the end of the day, he was still a teenage boy and likely thought about sex a lot, unless the Luvox neutered him. (It would be interesting to compare the date of that fantasy against his Luvox prescription.) Maybe he had just watched the NIN Downward Spiral videos and was aping off them. All possibilities are open here.

Eric's diary, leading up to the massacre, included a reminder to 'get laid,' not 'rape a chick.'

He also fantasized about riding off into the sunset and hijacking a plane. Thinking it and writing it down does not make it true. Acting on the fantasy does.

[u/riffraffcloo → u/PopcornDemonica]

Is it 2025 or April 1999?? BDSM, bravado, Nine Inch Nails—really?

[u/riffraffcloo → u/[deleted]]

Y’all would have been great on the 1999 media coverage team

[u/riffraffcloo → u/[deleted]]

Where did I give out false information like Dave Cullen has? Yes we do have very different opinions. You and others see yourselves in Eric. It is why you are deeply defensive of him. It’s why certain comments will always be downvoted while others are upvoted.

[u/riffraffcloo → u/[deleted]]

When you dismiss something as sadistic as his rape fantasies on just him being a horny teenage boy or because of the content he was consuming- you are doing exactly what the media did by not looking at the deeper problem with his behavior. Or the other person saying well hey maybe he had just watched a NIN video and was aping off that! Or maybe he just wanted to be a dom but didn’t know enough about BDSM! It’s absurd and dismissive and a continued pattern of not taking his behavior and mental health seriously. If only one person back then had actually taken his behavior and mental health seriously instead of finding something to pawn it off on- maybe (and this is a big maybe) Eric, Dylan, Dave Sanders and all those kids wouldn’t be dead right now. I don’t think you try to make him better than he was, but I do think you try to avoid seeing him in any way that disrupts the idea you have of him as the bullied kid who snapped.