• uniquethrowagay
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    17 hours ago

    Disclaimer: I was never an Incel. I held no ill will against women, I always had many female friends. I’m politically active and call myself a feminist. Still, I didn’t ever have a romantic partnership and I suffered from it.

    I am 29 years old. This year I started treating my chronic depression I never admitted I had and oh wonder I found a wonderful partner in a matter of months. Incel ideology is so fucked up. These guys seriously need help and support structures but they reject all that and hate half of humanity instead.

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      11 hours ago

      Well, noone ever showed them differently. And then, thanks to the internet, they get sucked into some circle-jerk of, at first, involuntaries, and then they get hyped against women. At least it isn’t their own fault anymore but the women’s. They feel better, and the circle did a fullturn and starts to drag them deeper.

      It’s understandable. But ultimately makes it harder and harder for them to ever crawl out of that pit and work on the real issues.

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      9 hours ago

      Incel ≠ misogynist. Incel means involuntary celibate. We need more people to learn about this and stop equating those two terms