iin his mind, he was trying, but his effortsinvolved extremely ineffective attemptsbasically just walking around and smiling at girls.
Exactly, so the rejection was mostly in his head … I’d suspect that 99% of the women didn’t even notice he was interested, and the other 1% may have thought it was a passing smile, not really to be acted on.[/quote]
This wasn’t just “the rejection was mostly in his head”. He hadn’t been rejected. I think most guys, maybe even some women here will get this analogy.
When I was in high school, I played on the basketball team. That’s a mild exaggeration, because I didn’t play. I went to practice every day, and sat on the bench during games. I wanted to play, but I knew I wasn’t anywhere near as good as the guys playing ahead of me. But there was this guy who sat next to me on the bench that was convinced that the coach hated him, and he really was as good as the guys who were playing. That he should be “entitled” to play. Rodger wasn’t like this guy. Rodger was a kid in the stands who was convinced the coach hated him, and that’s the reason he wasn’t playing, and he was angry as hell about it. Despite the fact that he’d never tried out for the team. Despite the fact that he’d never picked up a basketball.
That’s not a sense of entitlement. That’s displaced anger. And everything he wrote about women, about everyone else that he was going to “get back at” was displaced anger. It had no rational basis. That’s just bat-shit crazy.[/quote]
