I just realized I read "incel" articles on manboobz/WHTM for the same reason I watch scary or depressing movies over and over.
I almost identified as "incel" briefly as a 19 year old college freshie until I realized single cis women (or apparent cis women) can't be.
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Because its ideology is based on the idea that men are entitled to sex/romance/companionship.
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And on an institutional level, that idea doesn't really exist for non-men in society.
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I mean it gets more complex along other axes besides gender but generally.
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If a man is single, there's something wrong with women/society. If women/some other genders are single, there's something wrong with us.
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Anyway being single when you don't want to be sucks, but nobody is obligated to date/fuck anyone else, and there's no secret cheat codes.
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It's like applying for a job. You just have to keep going and trying to improve until something happens.
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