elliot rodgers crime was not a blind one but a targeted one aimed primarily at the women he felt rejected him but also at the men he saw as competitors for womens sexual attentions either way this was a misogynybased hate crime this was violence against women why the santa barbara shooting is a hate crime the national focus on elite and other selective postsecondary institutions obscures the enormity of the positive work other institutions provide and undermines the valuable information they can share about successful strategies for firstgeneration college students the problem with percentages and education which students merit our attention