I can't help but think that a lot of resentment from guys who aren't getting laid comes from society's notion that if you can't or don't get sex, it means you're a lesser human being and that makes it okay for others to hurt you. In that position, I could easily see a man resenting women as the gatekeepers of his full humanity, and that by not having sex with him, they're depriving him of it. It's very similar to some angry thoughts I had when I was younger, and in a worse timeline it's entirely possible I could've fully plunged into that same cesspit.

That isn't to justify any of the awful shit that incels say and do, of course - many reactionaries lay blame in the wrong place for very real problems they face - but I feel there has to be a connection there.

  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    1 month ago

    Good, pious individuals stay chaste and wait until marriage,

    For women

    you’re a loser if you hit your twenties and still haven’t gotten laid

    For men

    System functioning as intended.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Men are supposed to get laid as much as possible while at the same time feeemales are shamed for "high body count." YET ALSO if a feeemale turns down a man wanting to increase his high score, she is frigid and worse. morshupls

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          Yes, men do get shamed too, for absurd shit like "being too nice to a feeemale" which is seen as "simping." Are the cishets okay?

          • BeamBrain [he/him]
            hexagon
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            1 month ago

            simping

            It's one of those insults that reveals the inner ugliness of the person who uses it. "Oh, you're being decent to a woman? You must be after sex, because I can't imagine any other possible motivation for doing such a thing!"

          • mathemachristian [he/him]
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            1 month ago

            No. It took me a very long time to figure out how I could "defile" someone I loved. The answer of course was to reject the framing, but that was a tough nut to crack as teen/tween. After that I still had to unprogram a lot of misogyny before I was able to start dating.

      • heggs_bayer [none/use name]
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        1 month ago

        smuglordAh, but have you considered that a key that opens many locks is a good key, but a lock that gets opened by many keys is a bad lock?very-intelligent

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      1 month ago

      Yeah that’s where the impossible standard comes in. Outwardly it’s a gender neutral policy but in practice it’s only for women, so young men get left with cognitive dissonance on it.