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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2018

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2018

      2. Here's @DouthatNYT's argument as I see it:pic.twitter.com/xvpE4LJSyL

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2018

      3. A few things get Douthat into trouble. One is phrase "redistribution of sex" which to women sounds like he wants them to fuck men they don't want to. What he really wants is predistribution of sex (i.e. a different social order).

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2018

      4. The other problem is that Douthat mixes a muted prescriptive message (return to Mother Church!) with descriptive prediction (sex robots). Since Mother Church is improbable to most readers, they think he's endorsing prediction (language of "right to sex" contributes)

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2018

      5. People are having trouble reading my summary of Douthat. Here it is again (in, I hope, more readable form):pic.twitter.com/pkRhtOrKQ0

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2018

      6. But the real problem already starts with first premise: that "Sexual neoliberalism (Hefner modified by feminism) created unfuckable underclass (incels)." Problem here is that incels are more about status than sex.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2018

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2018

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2018

          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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2018

          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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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2018

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Baroness Becky Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch ™️ Power

          11. This is of course the main and unanswerable objection.https://twitter.com/BeckyBunzy/status/991839067162730498 …

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          Baroness Becky Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch ™️ Power @BeckyBunzy
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          Women aren't property, Jeet. The premise of the argument is invalidated once you accept that fact.
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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2018

          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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        2. Baroness Becky Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch ™️ Power‏ @BeckyBunzy 2 May 2018
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          Women aren't property, Jeet. The premise of the argument is invalidated once you accept that fact.

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        1. Migisan‏ @Migisan1 2 May 2018
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          I say give them tax credits towards sex dolls, Bluetooth-enabled fleshlights, whatever they want that isn't a living creature (although if the sex dolls are eventually given AI, they'll prolly refuse too lol). The less they reproduce & raise children, the better for all of us.

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        1. זָכוֹר אֶת יוֹם הַשַׁבָּת לְקַדְּשׁוֹ‎‏ @Sandwichman_eh 2 May 2018
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          Frankly, I don't care for Stacy's heels.

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        1. Rosco Roberts‏ @RoscoRoberts1 4 May 2018
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          I don't know a ton about Incels, but reading Douthat's piece, it seemed their complaint isn't that they don't get "Stacys." It's that "Chads" get all the Stacys...and all the other women too...because today's society dictates you're only fuckable if you're a Chad.

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