Is it possible that Ted Bundy didn't want to kill women but found it difficult due to his upbringing? 🙄

Having a bad childhood might teach you to hate the women in your family. It doesn't teach you to hate all women - that comes from participating in "manosphere" communities where that sort of rhetoric is common and normalized. Participation in that is voluntary.

All sorts of things are possible but there was no indication given by the author that the man in question was looking to heal when he talked to him and yet he still was most interested in having sympathy for him rather than for balancing compassion with discomfort at his views. Again, if he had been a sad sack who blamed Black people for everything wrong with the world and talked about how they disgusted him and how he was a victim of them (despite being a white man), the author would have most likely have distanced himself in some way from that rhetoric. Instead, he bolded some of his more outrageous statements - something that looks a lot like a tacit agreement with them. But he didn't distance himself in any way here, because demonizing women is so acceptable in our culture that even you felt fine with casually leaning in that direction without a second thought.

I have to admit, I find that really fucking disturbing.