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Superficially it seems like it but I would say no. Being a hikikomori is a mental disease whereas incels is a political movement. Most notably, it's rare for a
by whoopdedo 8y ago
Superficially it seems like it but I would say no. Being a hikikomori is a mental disease whereas incels is a political movement. Most notably, it's rare for a hikikomori to hold a job or even leave the house. Incels still participate in the economy and even socialize with like-minded people. They're not anti-social, they're anti-socialism.
- claudiawerner 8y ago>They're not anti-social, they're anti-socialism. Is this true? Although I get the impression that the incel movement is right-leaning, is there any reason to say that it's an essentially anti-socialist movement? What are its political goals? Is it even a movement?
- dqpb 8y agoI don't think this is true. Didn't their guru Jordan Peterson once call for "sexual redistribution"?
- api 8y agoWhy would they be "incel" then? There are loads of right leaning women who probably complain that there are no men who want a traditional family anymore. There are seven billion humans. If you can't find one with common values you might be looking in the wrong places. Of course a woman with traditional family and religious desires is still going to want to be treated with respect, so maybe that's a problem (from what I've seen of the "red pill" cult that overlaps incels). A major gripe of stay at home moms I know is that men do not respect the importance of what they do or the validity of their choice and look down on them.
- watwut 8y agoThey are incel because they want sex and don't have it. That is not the same thing as wanting traditional familly. They essentially want trophy girlfriend as a social status symbol not a person. They are not willing to deal with relationships ups and downs and compromises that happen in traditional families. They are not closed in their rooms long term nor necessary unemployed. They go to school, gym, meet like minded friends.
- b_tterc_p 8y agoAre you asking why they are incapable of finding sexual partners if they have some basic level of social competence? The incel movement is mostly a self fulfilling prophecy. A group of men who failed to get partners and rather than attributing the failure to themselves, attributed it to the women. Thinking that they are low quality males and it is the women’s fault that their standards are too high. In the absence of this belief, they could probably find someone as you say. But they have convinced themselves that women as a collective will not accept men of their caliber. It’s an unusual message of “it’s not my fault I’m bad” and you won’t find much logic to it. Basically it’s angry men with low self esteem but high entitlement.
- black-tea 8y agoWhere on earth did you get this idea about incels from?
- whoopdedo 8y agoAdmittedly I've never (that I know of) met an incel so I can only go by the things I read online. It seems to me they have a negative opinion of feminism, racial equality, and progressive-socialism. They've been told the reason they're not wealthy, popular, and happy is because of those things. So they imagine a distorted mirror world that would put them at the top.
- nyolfen 8y agoincels are an extreme subculture or a decentralized cult but it’s a pretty big stretch to call them a political movement