NEWTOWN KILLER had brain damage caused by his anorexia.

More details are coming out about the mental health of Lanza, how his parents declined help, and how he was so extremely anorexic that it caused brain damage. . . .

According to the report, Lanza was 6 feet tall and weighed just 112 pounds. No medication was mentioned.

Here’s another nail in the coffin of the “crisis of masculinity” thesis, which runs thus:

He needed a template, a blueprint, a script he couldn’t author. He found it in the insane militarism of American political culture—that’s why he dressed up like a commando [that is, in black] and stormed an elementary school as if it were a fortified bunker [didn’t he just waltz in?]. He played his part.

The unabashed hyper-masculine militarism he performed was . . . a hysterical reaction formation [?] against the “pleasure economy” we have created but denied . . . [blah blah etc.]

Yes, the killer wanted to play a masculine role, which explains why he adopted “moral” veganism to the point of brain-damaging malnutrition and why he had pro-pedophilia and homoerotic fantasy material on his computer. A real masculine type, that one. He sure played his part.