That this thread, of all things, has been anything other than an interrogation of the insidious culture of misogyny is just grim.
People, men in particular, don't want what he did to be about misogyny.
When women are raped and killed and stoned to death in developing countries, when they are cut and forcibly married, we can all comfortably sit back and pontificate about 'them' the 'other' who do 'bad things' because their religion or culture or whatever is inherently misogynistic. But 'ours' isn't. It makes middle of the road people feel much better about things, because it 'shows' that our culture is 'better' than theirs. What a lovely warm glow of superiority it gives people. Everyone can sit back secure in the knowledge that misogyny and patriarchy are present only in the fevered imaginations of hairy, dungaree wearing radical feminists, and who would want to listen to those strident harridans anyway?
The problem is when there is an Elliot about. A dyed in the wool woman hater, a man who believes he in entitled to all the hot women he could want, and, when he doesn't get that, goes on fora with like minded men to whine about it. He writes a long and frankly dull essay about 'why the women of world owe Elliot a favour' and how, because they won't just 'take one for the team' with him he will round all of us up, and gleefully watch us starve to death from a tower. He was while, middle class, well educated, reasonably well presented, rich, well connected. He was everyman, or at least what everyman aspires to, he was also a violent misogynist.
It makes it more difficult for Western men to differentiate between their misogyny, which can kill and the misogyny in developing countries, which can also kill. So men have to find another way to 'other' him, the easiest and cheapest way of doing that is by saying that it was his mental health problems, his undiagnosed ASD, something, anything which separates him from 'us'. Once he has been othered, common or garden misogynists can return once more to their happy world of woman hating, knowing that nothing has changed.
That's why there is this endless attempt to blame MH problems. Not because it explains why he did it, but because it means that his crimes can be safely ignored as the work of an isolated 'loon' and the patriarchy is safe once more.
This isn't about women as victims, this is about these men's fear of being seen for what they really are.