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why are incels frowned/hated upon? (lemmy.world)

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Obviously I can understand why mysoginists are hated upon, As their belief is all women are trash or men are superior etc. But why are incels also generally hated upon? They are lacking in a way that makes them unable to gey in a relationship, but that shouldn't necessarily mean they are mysoginists, right?

What am I missing here? I haven't ever had a relationship with a woman, but I don't hate all women either. I just consider myself unlucky. Does that make me an incel?

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[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Hold the fuck on. What?!

[-] axby@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago

Must be this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Toronto_van_attack

The attack is characterized as misogynist terrorism because it was motivated by revenge for perceived sexual and social rejection by women. At the time of his arrest, Minassian described himself as an incel to the police and in prior social media postings, and described the attack as the continuation of an "incel rebellion", started by the late Elliot Rodger.[11]

Sorry for the mobile Wikipedia link.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

There was also Elliot Rodgers or something like that. He was an incel who wrote a manifesto about how the world screwed him over his entire life and drove him to inceldom. So then he went on a killing spree targetting women, then killed himself.

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

Also George Sodini, who shot up an LA Fitness.

[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Oh I know about that one. I just wasn’t aware of the Van Attack. Should have been more precise.

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