Pictured left are Seung-Hui Cho's dormitory roommates, Joseph Aust and Karan Grewel.Joseph Aust and Karan Grewal, steered clear of Cho when they lived with him. They said Cho was quiet and didn't interact with them.
"He pretty much never talked at all," Aust said. "I tried to make conversation with him earlier in the year. … He gave one-word answers. He pretty much never looked me in the eye."
Though Cho's behavior was always strange, Aust said he noticed some changes in recent weeks.
"The last couple weeks [he] was getting up at 6 [in the morning] or even 5:30," Aust said. "And a couple of days ago, he actually got back to the room at about 2 in the afternoon and slept until 5 the next day."
Cho also had an imaginary girlfriend named "Jelly," who was a supermodel, said those roommates.
Cho's roommates said they didn't think they could have done anything differently to reach out to Cho and change what had happened.
"After the freshman year, you don't probe too much if people don't actively converse with you," roommate Grewal said . "I think I'd be scared if I tried any harder. I could have made him angry and act violently towards me."
(Reference: ABC News)
Do you think that it is possible to reach out to a person, regardless of their mental state, or are there some people that are going to accomplish what they set out to do regardless?
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Inside the Mind of a Killer
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As far as I am concerned, Cho is a hero in my book. As being of similar nature, bullied extremely as a kid and being sexually frustrated for practically all my life, I am 34, had sex only a couple of times without paying for it. I know what he went through. The simple fact is, if just 1 women noticed cho and mabey talked to him, this probably would not have happened. The problem in todays society is that women have so much sexual choice and they all go after the 5% of men who they consider desireable (the "alpha" types), that so many men get left out in the cold, a sexually deprived desert for which there is absouletly no escape. Some men can deal with it, for others, the biological drive which has driven the human race for countless millenia to reproduce, punishes us dearly for not getting the thing which all of us deserve and need just as much as food, water and shelter; sexual companionship. This drives many men to suicide, and sometimes homicide since they see women, bullies, jocks, etc as the ones who are depriving them of this need. Women just dont understand this insatiable need men have. But for me, it would probably be similar to being chained to a post like a dog, while everyone else around you is eating fillet mignon while you are starving competing with rats for the scraps. The people know you are starving but they dont care. If you were in this position, I guarentee you would feel anger and hatred towards your opressors as well, probably to the point where you would want to kill them. This is how Cho felt!
From the extensive reading I did on Cho, it seems that right before he snapped, he was denied sex by an escort. If I were him, I would have snapped too! For a guy who's existance was never even acknowledged by women all his life, he was probably nervous and embarassed as hell having to hire a prostitute since it was his only option, as it is for countless other men. This must have been the breaking point. Just think, if that escort had sex with him, 33 people would still be alive today.
The greater problem is that in our feminized, liberal, PC society, no one wants to mention the sexual starvation of men since that would tarnish the image of women as the pure, and innocent little angels that the media and hollywood makes them out to be and people would have to rethink the stereotype of all men being dogs, players, etc. I assure you that like 1% of men are capable of becomming players in the first place and the reason the stereotype exists is that 90% of all women are attracted to that 1% and the rest of us guys are just ignored and treated like trash by women.
I have wanted to do what cho did many times in my life and I can assure you that women have treated me like garbage all my life since I was never considered "cool" and was always a little socially awkward. It is just a shame that the media is throwing all that crap out about mental illness since it is too pussified to talk about the greater problem plauging men in this society.
I hate to say this, because I have a conscience and it is a shame the people have to die before changes can be made in society. It is just too bad that columbine did not happen 20 years earlier, as it may have saved me from a whole childhood worth of bullying and as a result my self esteem would have been more intact. It is just too bad that Cho did not select his victims better, mabey shooting up a sorority instead of just random people, then the media would have had to acknowledge sexual frustration as a major cause of this catastrophe.
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