I can't believe (but, you know, I can) that our nation's Serious Thinkers have gotten to sex reparations for white guys before actual reparations for black folks.
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Well, I think his view is closest to this: 'our widespread isolation and unhappiness and sterility might be dealt with by reviving or adapting older ideas about the virtues of monogamy and chastity and permanence and the special respect owed to the celibate.' (1/2)
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I think that's right. I'm just sort of surprised he's engaging even as much and as gently as he is.
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I mean, also, the full answer to these incel dudes is "Women are people," and if they need an answer rooted in law rather than morality, it's "The 13th Amendment."
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& again, I don't endorse his column or think it's particularly clearly written. But I don't think he's saying the demands need to be satisfied.
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My thought was that "we can satisfy them with sex robots" is still spending too much time saying they have legitimate concerns.
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He's just saying his view will not be our society's response, instead, 'I expect the logic of commerce and technology will be consciously harnessed, as already in pornography, to address the unhappiness of incels, be they angry and dangerous or simply depressed and despairing. '
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