it’s the same assumption that lies back of the idea that men would enjoy being catcalled if they were subject to street harassment like women are
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that people the men find unattractive aren’t going to desire them, aren’t going to hit on or harass them, aren’t going to demand that they be subject to the same coercive sexuality
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because the incel complaint isn’t that they can’t sleep with ANY WOMAN, it’s that they can’t sleep with the women they WANT.
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but if we’re doing this, and if the proposal is that people can be forced into sex work to meet the needs of the disenfranchised incel dude…
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…how does that system handle gay or bi men? how does it handle incel women? trans people? how does it handle anyone who isn’t a cishet dude?
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what happens if an incel dude under this system acquires enough sexual capital (ugh, this whole framing) that it has to be redistributed?
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what happens, in short, when it becomes time for the incel to be raped by the same system of mandatory rape they’ve built?
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and any safeguards you put in place to prevent that from happening—to ensure that the system never turns on the people proposing it—reveal it for the naked misogyny it transparently is.
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