He lets people quizzically infer what he means, then either says "maybe!" or "no not that, silly"
Today, the notion "the solution to being sexless is to get married" is quite radical. Marriage is presented as something you maybe do once your fun years of casual sex are over, not something you should be thinking about in your teens.
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We should be clear that self identifying "incels" are a very marginal group and cover a much broader age range than teens. the real gnawing sense of failure doesn't set in until the 20s and 30s, incel resentment is of missing out on casual fun and being expected to settle down.
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You've forced me to read the article, damn you. OK, he was talking about a 25-year-old, so this isn't just kids' frustrations. Peterson then claimed, "half the men fail" to get in relationships. If that's true, then the prospects for, say, 10% are completely hopeless.
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(I doubt it's true personally, but that's the argument he made) Conversely, if marriage is normal (as in most of European history), say 80% of people are marrying, then even if you're failing now, you can believe you have a reasonable chance.
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This isn't even original, it's fairly widely thought and discussed. Again, it's the difference between "X must be given sex, now" and "X should have reasonable hope that sexual success is attainable for him". One is ludicrous and impossible, other was a norm within living memory.
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