Interesting take on rise of inceldom . Although I don’t agree with all of authors reasoning, There are some good take aways.

Maldevinine · 2021-11-07T20:38:09+00:00

Copy/pasting the article because it's behind a metered paywall and so we may otherwise lose the ability to refer to it.

It may seem quaint to recall the hand-wringing that accompanied the cancellation of the South by Southwest music and film festival back in March 2020. Yet one of the documentaries slated to premier there has nevertheless resonated in a post-Covid world. Focusing on five young men who channel their alienation into offensive internet humor, Alex Lee Moyer’s TFW No GF brought the “incel” phenomenon back into the media discourse, and with it, the accompanying controversy over its subjects.

For the benefit of those whose minds have not been permanently tainted by the internet, “incel” is short for “involuntarily celibate” and has in recent years become an adopted endonym for men who have turned their resentment at romantic failure into something of an internet subculture. Engagement with incel culture ranges from gleeful indulgence in violating politically correct speech taboos to a full-fledged ideological war against the attractive “Stacys” who refuse to date them, the “Chad” men who capture women’s attention instead, and all the “normies” populating a society that enables such injustices. It has also occasionally spawned actual terrorism, as with the shooting spree that left six people dead near a California college campus and the van attack that mowed down ten pedestrians in Toronto.

As commentators have struggled to make sense of this phenomenon over the last few years, two distinct types of responses have emerged. In a strange reversal of the reactions to the September 11 attacks, where the Left’s attempts to contextualize the historical and political factors were shouted down by the Right as sympathizing with terrorists and “blaming America first,” this time it was the Left which insisted that the only proper response was outrage and denunciation, while any other analysis risked excusing murderers and blaming their victims. The same dynamic has characterized the reaction to Moyer’s film. While the director defended her film as a “public works project” seeking to explore an alienated section of society on its own terms, it received extensive criticism for “failure to cast judgment on its subjects.” Just as George W. Bush was convinced that Salafist terrorists were simply “evildoers” who “hate us for our freedoms,” the only acceptable explanation of incels for much of the Left is that they are “toxic” men full of “toxic” thoughts.

Now to say that incels, who openly proclaim their resentment and hatred of women, are driven by “misogyny” or “male fragility” is not so much incorrect as it is an exercise in tautology. Yet the explanations offered by the Right have not been much more satisfying. Incels themselves have placed the blame squarely on the feminist movement, and figures like Ross Douthat and Jordan Peterson have agreed. As the story goes, by eroding traditional norms of monogamy and family life, social and technological developments such as feminism and the birth control pill intensified sexual competition by giving women more freedom to choose their partners without consequences. French novelist Michel Houellebecq, now widely considered something of an incel prophet, analogized the problem to market deregulation: “Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never.” Even liberal writers like Jia Tolentino echoed similar points, writing that “several distinct cultural changes have created a situation in which many men who hate women do not have the access to women’s bodies that they would have had in an earlier era.”

Thus, the consensus narrative seems to be that traditional patriarchy had for ages ensured men’s access to sex, until feminism came along and gave women a choice in the matter—the only disagreements being over whether this is a positive development and whether the men “left behind” are to be pitied and accommodated or mocked and restrained. A closer look at history, however, suggests that the real question is not why incels exist, but why there aren’t more of them.

slipkid223 · 2021-11-06T19:35:20+00:00

This all you need to read:

"They extol marriage while opposing the sorts of economic redistributionist policies that would make it easier for men like them to attain and sustain it. They adopt white supremacist ideologies that demonize black and immigrant men instead of recognizing their common plight."

They are just anti-socialist "White Supremist" who hate immigrants.

GTFO with this shit.

Title	Interesting take on rise of inceldom . Although I don’t agree with all of authors reasoning, There are some good take aways.
Author	Shiva_uchiha
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Date	November 6, 2021 7:09 PM UTC (2 years ago)
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