• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Pretty Guy: Does basically nothing and women fall all over him

    Nice Guy: Becomes a phrenologist in response

    Always worth remembering that the OG Incel was a woman blogging about how desperate she was to lose her virginity.

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      Always worth remembering that the OG Incel was a woman blogging about how desperate she was to lose her virginity.

      That’s very unfair. She set up a forum, and by all accounts it was pretty decent. Mostly just people helping each other out, men and women.

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        She set up a forum, and by all accounts it was pretty decent.

        No doubt. I’m not casting dispersion on her. But men screaming “Why won’t anyone fuck me?!” today, having trampled over a woman with the exact same complaint is deeply ironic.

        When you get under the hood of a lot of modern incel culture (particularly, but not exclusively, male incel culture) the underlying complaint tends isn’t inceldom nearly so much as it is that porn stars won’t fuck them (for free) and people with anime anatomy aren’t real.

        That’s so far afield of the original desire for romantic companionship that made up the seed of the community. And it is driven, in large part, by the commoditization of romance through the same Big Tech and digital marketing companies that promote porn and other unrealistic expectations of beauty.