By David Futrelle
Today’s Deep Thought from the Incels.co forums. (Well, ok, technically it’s a Deep Thought from January but I just ran across it today.)
The rest of the thread is pretty bad but I’m too filled with existential dread to dig out the worst quotes for you all today.
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… well, not a campaign, but after there was a school shooting in Finland in 2007 (or maybe it was the 2008 one, I forget), I remember a male columnist in a respected national newspaper opining that the tragedy might have been avoided if some girl had been willing to date the shooter. I don’t remember if there was an outcry about this. I don’t think anyone would get away with writing that BS nowadays, in mainstream media anyways.
I can confidentally say I got busted when I was 16 for a veiled threat against the school and even if I had gotten laid if I had made good on it I still would have shot the fuckers who were giving me crap all the time.
it wouldn’t have made a fuck all of difference. I’d still hate those kids.
This guy clearly does not understand teenage boys if he thinks that giving us pussy will cause the homicidal desires to subside.
Thankfully wiser heads prevailed and I realized they were a temporary problem not worth spending the rest of my life behind bars for.
Not saying it is a magic bullet (no solution is) but the legalization of sex work will shave off a percentage of frustrated guys from metastasizing into incels.
…. having sex won’t make them less ‘incel’, ffs. They are incels because they are angry at very specific things, and even if they do have sex, then they will be angry at the woman they had sex with.
Also, why are you wishing people who have the potential to be school shooters or crashing-a-van-into-a-crowd-guy on sex workers? Sex workers get to say no, as well.
Like…
Is such an inadequate description/understanding of what makes an incel an incel that it almost beggars belief.
And if the next post is “Well, had I seen this when I was in X vulnerable state, there but for the grace of god go I!” SAVE IT.
We know.
Everyone knows that all men (apparently) are this close to turning into total misogynistic ass hats if they fall into a ‘bad crowd’ at a low point in their life.
“I was teased in high school, a completly male-coded experience! Then I found the incel boards, and I now hate women. And my canthal tilt!”
“I was ostracised when I was younger, also a completely male-coded experience! Thanks, incels-R-Us, for being the support network I needed!”
“I had a tough home life, something that has only ever happened to hetero cis men! Good thing I missed the memo to hate women for my problems, or I would have gone down a terrible road!”
If you were going to go this route (as many commenters, even here, have before) just imagine how it feels to find out that even the nicest people you know could have really easily hated you, had they found a message board earlier in their lives.
It sucks.
@paul Michael tidwell
This reads to me like the reason you’re glad you didn’t murder people is because you wouldn’t have felt any better after. Please clarify if that’s not what you meant.