One of the things about incel culture that a lot of people don't get--but this post shows in spades--is just how fundamental neoliberal market logic is embedded in the whole, uh, "scene."https://twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/990235360209915905 …
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If this sounds like a bizarre sexual hybrid of neoliberalism and crony capitalism, well, welcome to 2018. (And hell, naturally.)
I've tried to have empathy for the incel crowd in the past. I really have. I remember what it was like to be a pissed-off college-aged virgin.
But even then, the whole incel stuff weirded me out, because of the thinly-veiled misogyny and the inability to think about social relationships outside of market metaphors.
Even as an impressionable angry young white guy with--I'm sorry to say--a misogynistic streak, I was too much of a leftie to ever really buy into "marketplace" talk. I credit this to my parents and teachers. *Thank you.*
This sounds like an idea that's going to be introduced in the third Ernest Cline novel...
Or an updated version of the Handmaiden's Tale.
Actually, the *really* disturbing thing about this is that it's not that different from China's new social credit system.
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