• frezik@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    I wish there was a better way to distinguish between small-i incel (a life condition you’d like to change) and big-I Incel (a toxic social movement).

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      11 months ago

      (a life condition you’d like to change)

      Incel ideology is defined by the “involuntary” (the “In” in “Incel”). So by definition, saying that something can be changed, implies it is not involuntary. And not a part of the ideology.

      And because choosing to follow the ideology is a choice, there can be no such thing as a “small ‘i’” incel.

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        11 months ago

        Except it’s not exactly involuntary for them, is it? People who subscribe to that ideology are undateable because they become awful, toxic people, which can be changed.