Every time I read about violent, self righteous incels I get furious, because *plenty of women spend their lives feeling unfuckable*, but instead of being taught that the world owes them sex they're taught to think they're just worthless people.
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I didn't start dating anyone until I graduated high school (which, by the way, is TOTALLY NORMAL but didn't feel that way at the time), and I spent a lot of time feeling completely, totally broken. I had a lot of anger about my loneliness, but I *internalized it*.
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I know what it's like to feel like everyone else is off in the world doing normal sex things while you're forever alone. But women who feel that way rarely seem to see those feelings as justifications to take our anger out on strangers and the world at large.
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It's not that it's "easier" for women to get laid (as incel men all seem to think). The difference is that men are taught that the world owes them sex and love, and women are taught that sex and love are a reward you get for shaping yourself into someone worthy of love.
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After the Elliot Rodger shooting I wrote a piece about this for Nerve (it's since been scrubbed from the internet along with all the rest of Nerve but lives on on http://archive.org : https://web.archive.org/web/20140602101212/http://www.nerve.com:80/love-sex/true-stories/confessions-of-an-awkward-teen-girl …)
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The more we erase the stories and experiences of lonely women who feel unattractive, unloveable, and undateable, the more we prop up the bullshit rhetoric of the "wronged man" that fuels these mass murdering assholes.
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Just a heads up it looks like I may be writing a piece about this topic, so if you're a woman (or, really, just not a straight cis man) who has had an extended period of feeling unfuckable/undateable/"involuntarily celibate" and wants to share your story, pls DM/email me.
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If you write a piece could you let me tell you about the original incel community and how it was nothing lime it is today
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