It showed up in a group in my FB feed, and he's getting rinsed in the comments, so there's still some good in the world, but let's talk about all the things wrong with this kind of thinking. 2/x
This is the kind of garbage opinion prevalent among the kind of people who use the term "incel." It disgusts me, and this is Twitter, so let's do a thing. 1/xpic.twitter.com/J29BxQKFON
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The real magic of this kind of question is the assumptions behind it. Women, it assumes, choose their sexual partners solely based on wealth. Of course this is absurd, but think about all the things you have to believe for this to be true. 3/x
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For starters, you have to think women are mercenary above all else. You have to also think women who do like money can only get it (or primary do so) through men. 4/x
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It also shames women for wanting money and sex, gives them little to no agency in life, and reduces them to little more than greedy sexually-driven homunculi. 5/x
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It furthermore rests on the assumption that any woman who professes attraction based on things other than wealth is at best a liar, and at worst a manipulative monster. There's literally nothing about a statement like this that ISN'T deeply, profoundly misogynist. 6/x
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This is the culture of the "red pill" man, who for whatever reasons–deep-seated insecurity, extreme feelings of unfulfilled entitlement, jealousy–has decided the world is conspiring against him. 7/x
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It simply cannot be that he, a man, is not automatically deserving of the attentions of the people he finds most attractive. It cannot be that the reasons for his unhappiness are internal or internalized. 8/x
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It must be that there are people out to get him. Peter's*n's postmodern Marxists or Spenc*r's globalists have turned women against him. Given women the opportunity to spite him and deny his deserved attention. 9/x
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Yes, he says, the problem has nothing to do with me or my perception of being owed then things I desire. It is someone else's fault. It very quickly devolves into misogynist and racist conspiracy theories, but this is where it begins: entitlement. 10/x
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Returning to the post, "it was just a joke," is what they usually say. But it's not funny, not on the surface, and less so because of the places the joke takes you. Anyway, that's enough of that. Just needed to get that off my chest. As you were, twitterverse. 11/11
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