1. There's been some accusation that critics of @DouthatNYT have been unfair, so I'll try to make a fair critique (or as fair as I'm able). https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/opinion/incels-sex-robots-redistribution.html …
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7. You only have to read a little incel discourse (I wouldn't recommend more than a little) so see that anger is not that they don't have sex but that they are denied the high status women ("Stacys") they deserve
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8. Incels are not the voice of sexual underclass but rather the voice of aggrieved privilege: men who (as men) think they naturally deserve high status which they've been denied.
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9. Sex work already in societies that also produce incels. Yet on their messageboards, incels often denigrate sex workers rather than see them as a solution. Why? Because incels don't want sex: they want status of having conventionally beautiful girlfriend/wife.
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10. Aside from status of having conventionally beautiful girlfriend/wife, incels also want subservience & esteem. These are not things any society can really give them. Insatiable aggrieved privilege is not something you can negotiate with.
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11. This is of course the main and unanswerable objection.https://twitter.com/BeckyBunzy/status/991839067162730498 …
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12. I'll leave it to experts in therapy & deradicalization to figure out if there is some way to talk them out of their position. More broadly, anti-misogyny eduction might stop some from going down that path.
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The problem here is that the unfuckable don't want to make an effort to be fuckable and are angry at and taking it out on the wrong people. They are 100% the cause of all their own social problems.
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Preach!
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The problem is that in all likelihood fewer than one in twenty of them actually fit the description. Come back in ten years and see how many of them are in happy or unhappy relationships.
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My guess is that these internet forums are just "Abusers Of Tomorrow" groups and even then a majority of their members will GTFU one day.
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