Like many of the increasingly common mass-killing incidents of late it appears they all seem to share an inability with coping with “defeat,” be it professional or of the romantic nature. The phenomenon of over-sensitivity to a child’s “self-esteem” might be counterintuitive.
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But it’s the opposite: if your self-esteem is intact, you don’t crumble when things don’t go the way you wanted. Self-esteem is not selfishness, self-centeredness or narcissism, it’s their healthy counterpart!
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But that’s the whole point. True self-esteem is built over time and part of that comes from taking knocks & “losing” as a kid. When everyone gets a trophy nobody loses. We need to learn about failure in youth. We learn it sucks but we also learn it can be overcome with effort.
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When I was a teen, we just cried and masturbated in our solitude. The '80s were a different time.
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Some incels were teens in the 80's too
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Are you seriously trying to normalize this?
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Ah, yes. Informative news organizations giving information about the news is now normalizing. The didn't say, "What are incels? And here's why they're A-OK!"
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By giving them a normalized title and “community” is called normalizing them. Why not call them rapist pigs? Why try make them a community?
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They’ve used the name and had communities long before this.
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Well I have always thought of them as rapist pigs. Now they are a community of them with a name? Let’s make communities for pedophiles and serial killers too. Give them fancy names as well.
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They made they’re own communities as well. I don’t know how familiar you are with the deep and dark web, but there are a cacophony of sites made for those people, by those people.
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I’m not saying that thy don’t exist it’s just scary to make them seem normal. That’s all. Great btw to be having a normal convo on Twitter.
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Ah gotcha.
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Giving them a platform so that they can point, in pride, to the NYT discovering them, is not a good idea. Let them rot in the darkness of their caves.
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These dregs of society can continue to lurk without recognition
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The Economist has articles on how cultures that allow polygamy (always one man multiple wives and not the other way) creates an Incel problem and violence. https://m.slashdot.org/story/335375
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Polyandry is the term for when women take on multiple husbands. There are actually a few places around the world where polyandry is common - and funny enough, it's typically pretty peaceful society. The practice is often centered around pooling resources instead of peacocking.
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I like to learn something new everyday and today Polyandry is it. Thanks for the info!
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The nice thing about their celibacy is they won't procreate.
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