Nobody talks about incels any more. It's like they just disappeared. Did we solve it? Was it magic? Or are they just lumped in with the white supremacist terrorists now?

Anyway. 'Member incels?

  • ItGoesItGoes [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's a bit like the chicken and the egg: did inceldom turned them into right-wing white supremacist misogynists or were they already that way? Most likely a combination of both: they were already like that, but their condition further radicalised them.

    What I'm sure of, tho, is that – as some other poster already expressed – political ideologies have a lot to do with sex. I believe many incels and right-wingers are like that because they are unable to have sex or are sexually repressed.

    • Poetjustice [he/him]
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      Agreed. The early signs were there pre-incel culture with shit like forever alone and friend zoned for ever memes. While in a vacuum, they’re charming harmless memes, they ended up reflecting how a lot of dudes on the internet actually feel about sex and women.

      • OgdenTO [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        You're right, forever alone and friend zone are the precursors to inceldom, they are in the same headspace.

        I always figured that the friend zone and forever alone youth just gained some life experience and went outside, got older, grew up.

        I guess the incels are those that don't?

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          The memes were always mainstream so I'm sure most grew out of that mindset as they got older and matured to find their partners but the attitudes of entitlement are definitely still there, and those who are undatable because of their shitty politics or general unpleasant company have let it fester.

    • lvysaur [he/him]
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      It’s a bit like the chicken and the egg: did inceldom turned them into right-wing white supremacist misogynists or were they already that way?

      It's the opposite, white supremacy turned them into incels.

      The vast majority of "forever alone" men don't commit shooting sprees or even consider doing so.
      A disproportionate majority of incel shooters are also white.

      White culture/history tells white men that they are omniscient, all powerful, etc. White men internalize this. The bottom-of-the-barrel men start to see this white privilege inevitably slip away, and it radicalizes them because they feel a sense of loss. They grew up thinking they were up 50 points, but in actuality they were only up 5.