Now that I've read the article I have... thoughts.https://www.racked.com/2018/4/28/17290256/incel-chad-stacy-becky …
I feel like these "incel" guys have taken that same attitude a million times more toxic, by not only believing we should be grateful for their attention, but also, should be VICIOUSLY PUNISHED for NOT being grateful.
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And the fabulously hot women should also be VICIOUSLY PUNISHED for "using" that hotness to get stuff from horny dudes, as well as for sleeping with guys who are handsome or rich or otherwise seen as top dog.
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In fact, in their view, all women should be viciously punished basically for existing, which is why I place the blame for the creation of murderous misogynists STRAIGHT on the religious right/Christian patriarchy movement.
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The explicitly religious misogynists use a vaguely Biblical sexual purity story framework to argue for the eternal punishment of women. But these ostensibly secular "incel" dudes are using a story they got from things like John Hughes movies.
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That a lot of these story templates we carry around in our heads -- because we all get stuff from the movies, let's be real -- are, deep down in their bones, toxic and misogynistic and sexist as hell.
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We need to start telling better stories.
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