'The ancient social contract…is that a man will get a woman.' https://aeon.co/essays/humiliation-and-rage-how-toxic-masculinity-fuels-mass-shootings … [Have we reliable data on pre-modern surplus males?]
The 'Alana' cited as the creator of 'incel': https://www.elle.com/culture/news/a34512/woman-who-started-incel-movement/ … [via @AElkus] Note how she was inspired by the marginal sexual categories gaining visibility online.
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I don't understand why 'the libs' [particularly feminists] feel compelled to respond to this 'redistribution for the incels' trolling. Is it because it's to do with 'redistribution'?
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'from what Shechter has seen in her research, there’s no indication that men who feel cut off from sex and companionship are having significantly different experiences from their female counterparts'https://splinternews.com/unfuckable-women-dont-go-on-killing-sprees-1825746733 …
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'like in Calvin’s era, there are those who are marked for blessings and those who are marked for damnation, seemingly from birth…who we deem worthy of our love and attention, often lines up with demographics of other forms of power' https://www.damemagazine.com/2018/05/29/incels-arent-just-angry-young-men/amp/?__twitter_impression=true … [via
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Why geeks grief girl gamers: 'We hypothesised that female-initiated disruption of a male hierarchy incites hostile behaviour from poor performing males who stand to lose the most status.' https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131613 … [via
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'“nearcel” (“nearly celibate”), “noncel” (“non-celibate”), “volcel” (“voluntary celibate”) and “hicel” (“high-standards celibate”—not to be confused with “heightcel,” a man whose lack of height renders him an incel)' https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/08/intel-involuntary-celibate-movement-218324 … CW is almost all incels are hicels?
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Analysis of dominant themes on an incel subreddit: https://twitter.com/SimonDeDeo/status/995397330093400065 … [via
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I Googled, and it appears at least some punters on incel forums are aware of the Gale-Shapley Algorithm. https://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/06/rshorey/math/alg.html … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem … See alsohttps://medium.com/@approxknowledge/the-mathematical-rabbit-hole-behind-incels-5df4814396f1 …
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We generally frown on men who swipe right for every woman on Tinder, but if incels suffer from information asymmetry, swiping right universally could be a speedy way to help them locate their relative status.https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ae55xk/men-who-swipe-right-to-everyone-on-tinder-explain-themselves …
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