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    kairotic evil‏ @thelastinstance Apr 26

    "Incel" names a stance taken with respect to a predicament. It's interesting how often repudiation of the stance (which *is* entirely distorted and malevolent) shades into disparagement of the predicament: "if you were a better person, you wouldn't be in that situation".

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      2. kairotic evil‏ @thelastinstance Apr 26

        People can't quite seem to let go of the notion that being admittance to, or exclusion from, the category of sexually desirable human beings reflects a sort of natural justice, a verdict on one's general soundness just neutrally delivered by the cosmos.

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      3. kairotic evil‏ @thelastinstance Apr 26

        There isn't just *one* such category of course; it shifts as you get older, move in different circles, start wanting different things and being drawn into different circumstances by those wants. What that also means is that the way it's constructed is not neutral or universal.

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      4. kairotic evil‏ @thelastinstance Apr 26

        I remember reading a sci-fi story years ago in which a society which had abolished prison dealt with its remaining incorrigibly violent sociopaths by genetically modifying them so that they gave off a repulsive stench (which they themselves could not smell).

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      5. kairotic evil‏ @thelastinstance Apr 26

        The smell served to warn others that they were not to be trusted and shouldn't be associated with, and motivated their general ostracism. The particular cruelty of the story was that those so modified did not know what had been done to them.

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      6. kairotic evil‏ @thelastinstance Apr 26

        A lot of our social heuristics for deciding who's trustworthy *already* work a bit like that. I remember being introduced to a friend of my then-girlfriend who decided that I was evasive and emotionally withholding because I didn't make eye-contact with her.

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      7. kairotic evil‏ @thelastinstance Apr 26

        I remember being genuinely startled by that judgement - I thought of myself as quite helplessly candid, in a sort of blurtingly-teenaged way, and couldn't see why something I habitually tended not to do (for reasons I hadn't fathomed at the time) should be so significant.

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      8. kairotic evil‏ @thelastinstance Apr 26

        My point being, I suppose, that heuristics of that sort aren't always particularly fine-tuned, or particularly fair, and their rigid and oversensitive application can be dehumanising towards people who are just a bit eccentric.

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      9. kairotic evil‏ @thelastinstance Apr 26

        p.s. The story, which appeared in "Yet More Penguin Science Fiction", was this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_of_the_Kind …

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      1.  🌈Summerspeaker 🦄‏ @queersing Apr 26
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        The whole incel thing was pretty reasonable as of its founding by a queer woman. But then it all went to hell:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/25/woman-who-invented-incel-movement-interview-toronto-attack?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other …

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