And I don't find the tone of this post to be blame-y or excessively snarky or even notably irreverent. Instead it just highlights how some of the fairly mundane details of this story managed to take on a sadly tragic importance.

Similarly, I'm pretty sure that some commenters' attempts to psychoanalyze the perpetrator are hopelessly premature...but I still find those interesting too, especially SarahHeartburn's comments about the very first impressions that students sometimes make.

In short, I see a lot of thought-provoking observations in this post and its attendant comments, and it seems unhelpful and obfuscatory to complain instead about what's not there. (Except maybe the failure to blur out the instructors' identifying info -- that seems worth considering.) I wonder if people aren't just taking their free-floating sadness and anger at this story and aiming it at the nearest target, which Owen happens to be here.

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1. When depressed people write to Salon, it's funny!

2. When beautiful women take classes in sexuality they get shot!

3. Fire Shelia.

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And posting the syllabus? Why? How is that in any way enlightening? I don't get it.

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I find the headline of this article and the first line in incredibly poor taste. And printing the syllabus is just messed up. What is the point of this article--don't take a class on sexuality?

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Also, please feel free to read [psychoticlettersfrommen.blogspot.com] to brush up on how bug fuck some guys are who won't get the message to leave a woman alone.

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I'm not being all Jezebelly, but this case here is at the height of all women's anxieties. When a guy can't leave you alone. And then she's shot 7 times.

Essay question: What made Justin-Jinich's killer snap?

Is this a real question? To make sense out of something from its core completely non sensical? Or is there an implication here?

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