Our response to incels should NOT be a thought experiment about sex robots + government sex redistribution programs. It should be a blistering disavowal of their violent, misogynist worldview, and a conversation about creating a healthier, more respectful sexual culture for all.
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Ross Douthat makes a grave mistake taking incels at their word that they can't get laid and conflating them with marginalized groups considered unattractive for bigoted reasons. Incels could get laid if they didn't hate women and feel entitled to *hot* women.
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I think we do have a right to a healthy sex life: to access to sexual healthcare, to a society free of sexual shame. But we do not have a right to other peoples' bodies, and that's what the incels believe. They don't feel entitled to sexual pleasure, they feel entitled to women.
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"I expect the logic of commerce and technology will be consciously harnessed... to address the unhappiness of incels, be they angry and dangerous or simply depressed and despairing." The incel worldview is inherently sexist. Their unhappiness is really hatred.
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I don't understand why the
@nytimes invested in a literal Gender Editor and is still letting op-eds that are tenuous at best and deeply damaging at worst like Ross Douthat's latest see the light of day.@jessicabennett, what do you think of this? Can you please write a response?10 replies 277 retweets 2,139 likesShow this thread -
Hey media! Incels are the new Gamergate. Are you going to mess this up again? Are you going to laugh them off as a weird curiosity with valid ideas to explore, or are you going to recognize them as a hate movement that has *already* inspired multiple murders?
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Why are men in media responding to an *actual murderer and misogynist terrorist* by talking about sex robots and wondering if nerds have a right to get laid? WHAT ARE YOU DOING. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SEXISM. IT'S 2018. PEOPLE ARE DYING.
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I don't want to hear any more opinions from men about incels unless it's an aggressive dismissal of their violent bullshit or an intelligent conversation about our broken, entitled sexual culture and mental health. In the mean time, I'm looking for literary representation.
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People I want to read
#incel takes from: - sex workers, who are being suggested as a solution and shouldn't have to deal with these shit men as clients - men engaged in the work of fixing masculinity - women who have trouble getting laid and somehow manage to not be trash humans!73 replies 567 retweets 3,442 likesShow this thread -
ella dawson Retweeted Jessica Valenti
Do yourself a favor and read
@JessicaValenti's essay instead of that other one.https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/991715443260973057 …ella dawson added,
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I fail to understand why any of what you just said is difficult for people to grasp. You are spot on correct, and the fact that the incel subculture has garnered anything but sheer disgust is shameful. and thank you for the link, reading now.
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