Incels

[poliphilo]

There have always been incels- randy young men who can't get laid and don't see how it can possibly be their fault. Hamlet was an incel- or at least you can play him that way (the greatness of Hamlet is you can play him everywhichaway). Any poet who ever penned lines to his "cold" or "cruel" mistress was having an incel moment. Keats's La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is thoroughly incel. It's a phase. Most men grow through it.

All that's new is that the internet allows incels to flock.

Comments

[cmcmck]

There has long been a male assumption that we want only one thing in our lives and that's to be fucked by them.

I still recall being sized up by a Muslim guy outside Friday prayers in Gillingham and I held up my wedding ring finger and said: 'and what would your respected mother, peace be with her, be thinking?'

I've never seen anyone look so embarrassed! :oD

[poliphilo]

That was a great way of handling things.

[sovay]

All that's new is that the internet allows incels to flock.

And not grow out of it.