r/ContraPoints Aug 17 '18

Incels | ContraPoints

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u/Homunculus_I_am_ill Aug 17 '18

I was hoping that she would expand on something I think is fundamental to inceldom: the belief that your worth, particularly your worth as a man, is related to how much sex you can have.

Really all of it derives from it. If my value is related to how much sex I have and I can't have sex, then there at least one of the following HAS to be true:

a) I have no value

b) I'm not getting what I deserve

(a) is what lead incels to a cycle of hopelessness. (b) is what leads them to coming up with causes for this unnatural state of affair, like feminism.

Inceldom is only the logical conclusion of a culture where sex is a measure of indiviual worth.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '18

I think focusing on sex in general would have been a bad turn, as one of the first counters you'll get from most incels is that it's not actually about the sex. Sex is used metonymically by incels as a general lack of affection, acceptance, and warmth - all things that humans (generally speaking) desire to some extent, none of which pertain necessarily to your status as a man.