“Psychotherapist Dr. Robi Ludwig has been popping up all over TV news this weekend after 22-year-old Elliot Rodger killed seven people, including himself, in a murderous rampage near UC Santa Barbara Friday night. But it was one speculative comment on Fox News that has drawn the most attention.
Saturday evening, Ludwig wondered aloud of Fox’s Justice with Judge Jeanine Pirro if Rodger was somebody who was “trying to fight against his homosexual impulses?” Instead of the conventional wisdom that Rodger targeting young women because he found they were not attracted to him, as he laid out in his video and written manifestos, Ludwig asked if he was “angry with women because they were taking away men from him.”
On Monday, Ludwig attempted to address some of the criticism she had received by posting a hashtag-filled message on Facebook, which notably misspelled the killer’s name — twice”* Ana Kasparian, Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report) and Gina Grad (Gina Grad Show, Pretty Good Podcast) break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from Matt Wilstein / Mediaite: http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-guest-thinks-you-misunderstood-her-elliot-rodger-homosexual-impulses-comment/