Looked up "incel," foud this tweet (pictured). I wonder how it would read if it were a rant against, say, women who complain about being rejected because of body shaming culture.pic.twitter.com/eiYYtLeFgn
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Looked up "incel," foud this tweet (pictured). I wonder how it would read if it were a rant against, say, women who complain about being rejected because of body shaming culture.pic.twitter.com/eiYYtLeFgn
You nailed it.
AFAIK the case that the toronto driver was an incel is based on a single facebook post he made. Inasmuch as I agree that this issue definitely needs societal attention, I don't think this is a good example or a helpful way to frame the problem.
It's like using Eliot Rodger as the poster boy for "toxic masculinity". No one is going to empathise more with boys if you imply that they are all nascent serial killers.
"Awkward romantic" overtures are seen as "harassment or stalking." The powerless male is "not the patriarchy," Cathy, I agree w/ you on everything. I think the movie "Crazy, Stupid, Love" had the scene in the bar where the woman asked, "In what world?" She meant that his /1
inferior face had the nerve to approach her superior face. Body shaming is OK, but only to a wh*te male. In 1970, feminists attacked the "macho man."Today, they attack the wimp. The powerless man "is not the patriarchy." Feminists never shame the misogynistic, homophobic rappers.
They try so hard to give ammunition to incel men & to alt-right "anti--c*ck." I always link to the YT of @BretWeinstein & @EricRWeinstein . But the REAL thing is the viral cuckold porn, where the bl*ck man & the self-hating wh*te woman spew ra*ism, degradation at her husband.
. @RealCandaceO told BLM to drop the c*ck porn. "When asking for money, don't call them 'little d*ck wh*te man.'" Steve Harvey was forced to apologize to Asian men for the similar slur. But no one cares about incel wh*te men.
@CHSommers tells us that teachers force little boys to play w/ dolls. It's all racialized. Only wh*te boys are forced into incel. When BLM tells wh*te women to make sure that their offspring is not wh*te, it gives ammunition to the alt-right, who chant, "You will not replace us."
I can't point to any one thing, but the loss of mentorship of boys and replacing it with nothing is a big problem. The Boy Scouts, for example, had a great deal of positive mentorship and empowerment that has been in decline, in part because of some of their retrograde policies.
The problem with those policies, however, was that they excluded children who could benefit from their programs, not with the programs themselves. We seem to have thrown the baby out with the bathwater in that instance.
I find it so hard to believe they actually HATE women. Even a guy like Rodgers or this one in Toronto. To me "hate" is something rational. You know? When it comes from "mental disorders or neurological conditions" it's something else. I'm not really sure how to express it hehe.
Great piece, though. I always enjoy your work. =)
I know that's not the main point of what you were writing, but I hate seeing an otherwise well-done piece fail this bit in exactly the same way as all the others did. :( (2)
Oh no. Oh no, oh no, oh no. Not you, too. His Facebook page had no friends and only that one post. In fact, if there were no timezone glitches involved, it was made AFTER the attack. Lots of signs pointing towards it being fake. So it's not even proven he was an incel at all. (1)
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