Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/rpusfv/lpt_dont_fall_for_the_selfmade_myth_selfmade_is_a/hq6pn0s

The whole thread is trash and just filled with contrarian assholes with their stories of survivor bias. This definitely takes the cake though. Raise your hand if you're an inumemp!

  • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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    3 years ago

    I mean that there is no real material basis for "inceldom" as a state of being that would make it exist as an external structure which is traumatically imposed upon the individual subject by greater forces. It is a constructed identity based on the creation of a "master-slave" dialectic between the incel and "women", (see CCK Philosophy's video on Incels). The incel sees all women as a robotic hivemind fundamentally lacking individuality, hates this hivemind, yet yearns for its acceptance to affirm his own humanity since he recognizes (either implicitly or explicitly) that he has subordinated the very nature of his existence to the judgement of "women".

    Of course there is also the issue of determining to what extent "inceldom" was created by the cultural forces at play within imperialist nations (because this is where the phenomenon started after all). I remember an excellent post made by someone a while back about how incels are not so different from the type of men who join fraternities, it is only that one had sex, the other did not. The underlying thought and view towards women as both trophies and a hiveminded measure of masculine worth are very similar after all.

    All in all its the result of the anti-human, competitive, individualistic culture created by neoliberalism.

    Interestingly this also says more about the plebbitors who proposed "career inceldom", because, in a sense, if they identify themselves somewhere on this spectrum, then they have subordinated their own self worth to the eldritch gaze of the market.