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    Damien Walter‏ @damiengwalter Apr 26

    Many, many years ago, when OKCupid was new in the world, I tried helping a friend who was, retrospectively, and Incel, find a date. The basic priblem was, he would only look at profiles of women who were 18 or 19, and incredibly rude about...

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      2. Damien Walter‏ @damiengwalter Apr 26

        ...any perceived flaw in other people's looks. I suspect most Incels have simply adopted such an unrealistic, fantasy idea of what a woman should be, that it's basically impossible for them to develop anything like a real relationship.

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      3. Damien Walter‏ @damiengwalter Apr 26

        I think we underestimate, because it's not part of how we define masculity, just how prone men are to delusional fantasy. Everything from religious extremism to attitudes to women, all deeply delusional.

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      4. Damien Walter‏ @damiengwalter Apr 26

        Incels are believers in a profoundly fucked up fantasy. And of course it's a fantasy they can never, ever fulfill. And it's an unshakable barrier between them and any real interpersonal fulfilment.

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      5. Damien Walter‏ @damiengwalter Apr 26

        Today we call them Incels, gun nuts, terrorists, mass shooters. But it's chilling to remember the for most of human history, these delusional fantasists inflicted their fantasy over the world. And they could again.

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      6. Damien Walter‏ @damiengwalter Apr 26

        This is of course what The Handmaid's Tale envisions. A return to the fundamentalist society of the past, ruled by sick men playing out nasty fantasies of power and dominance. Atwood sees it all so clearly.

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      7. Damien Walter‏ @damiengwalter Apr 26

        In isolation Incels would not be a threat. But clearly we live in a world in which crazy fantasists are forming cults of all kinds. The risk is that the centre ground of rationality shrinks so far that a number of these cults slide into power.

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      8. Damien Walter‏ @damiengwalter Apr 26

        Look at the Hellenistic world and Rome. A developed civilisation that collapsed and gave way to the insane fantasies of Catholicism, with it's sky god and flamming inferno.

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      9. Damien Walter‏ @damiengwalter Apr 26

        And what facilitated this change? Writing. The spread of written books and literacy to read them helped all kinds of crazy, dangerous, irrational ideologies to spread. The medium is the message. The church understold this, and once it had control, it brutally supressed writing.

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      10. Damien Walter‏ @damiengwalter Apr 26

        Now we have the internet. And once again, a new medium is spreading batshit crazy ideas like wildfire. Incels are just one pocket of this lunacy. The early internet optimists predicted social transformation, but I think most missed the craaazy that would come with it.

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      2. Matt Hill‏ @matthillco Apr 26
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        I bet he was butt ugly too?

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      3. Damien Walter‏ @damiengwalter Apr 26
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        He was not blessed with traditional, or indeed untraditional, good looks.

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