I can’t stop thinking about this whole “incel” bullshit in the context of the social scene from my college days.
Two of my pretty good friends expressed some proto-incel tendencies. ....weird to reflect on that. Totally wouldn’t harm flies and now happily married.
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Trying to wrap my head around the current incels who start there (normalish) and then totally go down the rat hole.
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Honestly, in my day we just thought the guys who mooned after popular women way outside their zone were just gay and trying to have a facade.
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But anyway. The sense that they are “good guys” and it is a moral outrage that women would be attracted to assholes is very familiar to me.
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I don’t think I fully appreciated the extent to which they see women as prizes, as things to be awarded for good behavior and withheld for bad. I doubt *they* grasped that.
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And perhaps a spidey sense for that attitude is exactly what keeps the proto-incel from having any social success?
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Also weird was the way the proto-incel personality turned on their friends with some degree of animosity if those other guys started romantic relationships.
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Younger me chalked it up to jealousy and I just sort of felt bad for my friends.
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Maybe they turned on their friends because social success proved their Chadness?
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