INCEL is a gendered, sexist term that bases a male's worth on the cultural norm of treating sex with women as a currency for status.
I mean, like it or not sex is something people want so those who get it will tend to be happier than those who do not.
It's not that complicated. I'm sure the scumbags that womanize women every weekend also have their worth based on how many victims they coerce.
As a man, I've noticed it's way easier to be accepted by others if I'm currently dating a woman. It's even easier to get with other ladies if I'm already with one.
I think a lot of the pushback to your post comes from people on the internet who have been conditioned to overcomplicate simple realities when those simple realities are not what they like to see.
i.e. They don't want society to feel bad for males who aren't getting laid, therefore it's acceptable to call them incels and make fun of them in our social circles. It's better to push incels further and further to the fringe of society until they snap and shoot up schools than it is to have any kind of empathy towards them.
Trying to help an incel is like trying to help a pedophile. It's not good for social clout.
I thought that was the point. We should be condemning them for thinking that way, and incels has become a double term to describe little men who actually think that.
Unpopular and incorrect. Incel was first coined by a woman to describe herself.
Bad argument, what counts is how a term is actually used, not what it meant originally. (No I'm not saying OP is right)
agreed, that would be the unpopular opinion considering everyone else has it as:
a member of an online community of young men who consider themselves unable to attract women sexually, typically associated with views that are hostile toward women and men who are sexually active.
Look, it isn't that your opinion is popular, it's that it's written in gibberish
I think people made a confusion between "I want to have sex with women, but currently am unable to" (as in, actual incel) and "Women have too much power in the market for sex, we were denied it, and we have to force women to serve us" (as in, patriarchal shitheads but also commonly referred to as incels).
Unfortunately, it is the second one that is pushed most loudly inside and outside incel communities and thereby most commonly discussed, and as with any batshit idea, it faces aggressive response (and it should, we just have to separate two things).
That's how the original pity party of patriarchal incels got weaponized against incels as a whole.
The fuck language is this? It looks like English but….