I’ve spent so much time reading up on incels and the manosphere and it’s so weird to have it become something more mainstream people are hearing about now. But if I can just add to the thread I RT’d this morning, because I need it to be something people process.
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I also feel, as an outside party reading, that if the posters had more confidence, we’re more able to discuss feelings and emotions with people and greater empathy in general, they would have better luck. (Although, who knows? I can relate to being alone forever.)
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But even knowing a lot of single women who date men, they all wouldn’t qualify as potential love matches for these men. (Also, as toxic as they are, these women should stay away.) But! These men are so entitled, and taught to be, that they only want to date the hottest women.
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Turning away from these men, you have a lot of women who feel the same. Alone, sometimes lonely. They build great friend groups and find other productive things to do or that find them joy. What else is there to do? You don’t see large groups of women forming groups this same way
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(Sometimes in times of weakness, they point out to their besties that they met their partners through them and *maybe* y’all should also find some cool people because your girl is going to die alone here so help please???

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Anyway, at the basic level of “hey, I’m cool and also going to be single forever properly and die alone”, I get it. It sucks, to put it mildly.
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But that hasn’t led me or women like me to violent extremism, plotting acid attacks or beta uprisings. It’s beyond time to focus on this. We aren’t focusing on how toxic masculinity is ruining a lot of shit in society, and growing a terrorist movement.
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That’s not me making a jump, either. People have been calling this out for a long time. You have men posting about mass rapes and acid attacks and other ways to induce terror and fear through violence. What else would you call that? (don’t @ me, that’s not a real Q.)
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Anyway, this is heavy for 6am. But I encourage you to read the articles coming out about this toxic group of men. Read
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Most importantly: don’t pretend this isn’t a thing. We are seeing more and more that violent men who hate women are finding likeminded people online and becoming violent offline. It’s time to realize this is a real concern and we need to take this shit seriously.
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Also: society has shit double standards of beauty, behaviour and pretty much everything when it comes to women. Can we fucking fix that already?
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