Yup, or a bit younger. I’m 40, so I was 28 when gamergate kicked off this whole online misogynist grifter ecosystem (which fed into and became a component of what we’d call the alt-right a few years later.)
By that point I’d already had my first few bad breakups and rejections and had grown up, and had made some good platonic friendships with women, so I wasn’t vulnerable to it. But if it’d happened when I was like 23 or 24 and I hadn’t had those chances to grow and mature yet? It might’ve been a lot different.
It’s much easier to blame bad luck and personal failings on others. Growth and maturity takes work.
I know we all know what an incel is, but these words are a better descriptor I think If you want folks to come back, and not scare them further down the hole
So after he lost he committed to losing? What would you call someone like that?
an Incel. The manosphere lures them in by making all the problems belong to the woman.
They prey on insecurity. I would have been easy prey for those assholes if I was just a bit dumber.
Yeah, same. i’d have gone down the pipeline shouldn’t have I watched contra points video on incels
We all make mistakes.
My brother is pretty dumb but very persuasive so he can pass as an “intellectual”. His gateway drug to the manosphere was Jordan Peterson.
Yup, or a bit younger. I’m 40, so I was 28 when gamergate kicked off this whole online misogynist grifter ecosystem (which fed into and became a component of what we’d call the alt-right a few years later.)
By that point I’d already had my first few bad breakups and rejections and had grown up, and had made some good platonic friendships with women, so I wasn’t vulnerable to it. But if it’d happened when I was like 23 or 24 and I hadn’t had those chances to grow and mature yet? It might’ve been a lot different.
It’s much easier to blame bad luck and personal failings on others. Growth and maturity takes work.
vulnerable, insecure
I know we all know what an incel is, but these words are a better descriptor I think If you want folks to come back, and not scare them further down the hole