Hollywood_Guy wrote:
For a reminder, here is the first part of magneto's OP with bolded point below:
magnetowasright wrote:
A quick Google search for "involuntary celibacy" will reveal several articles, all of which labeling all men who are unable to find love as violent misogynists who believe women owe us sex.
The issue here sounds like it has more to do with personal bias and prejudice than semantics.
Yes, his bias was that those articles he read were talking about incels who visit those online communities that are full of misogyny, and he read that as ALL SINGLE MEN ARE MISOGYNISTS because of his bias and paranoia. The articles about incels weren't about him, but he read them that way because he needed someone to rage at and someone to blame for his unhappiness and that target ended up being people who write articles about the online incel communities that promote rape and violence. He's obviously depressed and suicidal and needed to feel targeted so he had justification for those feelings other than just being mentally ill--"sure i'm depressed but it's because women are out to get me and label me a misogynist", that's the reasoning. That way they can avoid getting help for their mental health issues because they have convinced themselves that the source of their illness is outside of themselves and beyond their control, when really it's their own depressed mind lying to them and it is within their control to get help for it.
It's a very common pattern I've seen among incels, and even some of the single guys here--they need to place the source of their mental illness somewhere external, "I'm depressed because women won't date me, not because I'm genetically predisposed to it." It's just another way of shifting blame and avoiding personal responsibility.