I’m not talking about them being or not being communists, and don’t give me the “Masses, Elites, and Rebels” lecture. There are lots of other “slipped through the cracks” losers out there who aren’t incels, so many that it feels like our society is more crack than surface, and we can quip about there being commonality between incel ideology and liberal ideology, but most of those losers still aren’t incels, they still don’t make a political project of being hostile to women or anything like that.
Part of that is, if you care about words having meanings, most people aren’t chuds, and even among men it’s at least contested enough that it’s not “the basic mode of living” in most social contexts. As much as we can draw cute connections, the only time you see someone on CNN saying we should repeal the 19th Amendment is if they are wheeling out some internet crank, and the people on CSPAN who do believe it mostly keep it to themselves.
The difference is that these people don’t make hating women their personalities and political projects. These 4chan type misogynists are clearly having a different impact on young men than mainstream misogyny. Chris Brown beats women, but he wouldn’t celebrate someone like Elliot Rodgers trying to go on a killing spree of women. Incels are developing into terrorism and leaking into mainstream misogyny.
I’m not talking about them being or not being communists, and don’t give me the “Masses, Elites, and Rebels” lecture. There are lots of other “slipped through the cracks” losers out there who aren’t incels, so many that it feels like our society is more crack than surface, and we can quip about there being commonality between incel ideology and liberal ideology, but most of those losers still aren’t incels, they still don’t make a political project of being hostile to women or anything like that.
Part of that is, if you care about words having meanings, most people aren’t chuds, and even among men it’s at least contested enough that it’s not “the basic mode of living” in most social contexts. As much as we can draw cute connections, the only time you see someone on CNN saying we should repeal the 19th Amendment is if they are wheeling out some internet crank, and the people on CSPAN who do believe it mostly keep it to themselves.
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The difference is that these people don’t make hating women their personalities and political projects. These 4chan type misogynists are clearly having a different impact on young men than mainstream misogyny. Chris Brown beats women, but he wouldn’t celebrate someone like Elliot Rodgers trying to go on a killing spree of women. Incels are developing into terrorism and leaking into mainstream misogyny.