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More incel than emo I think.
by Enginerrrd 3y ago
More incel than emo I think.
- pacija 3y agoYou think wrong.
- Enginerrrd 3y agoI mean, do I though? I'm aware of it's source from urban dictionary under "emo", but I can't help but feel that rant is weirdly steeped in misogyny and twisted notions of the masculine ideal.
- pacija 3y agoWell, if you can explain how a guy who is married for fifteen years to the same woman, and has two kids with her, is in involuntary celibate, I'd be glad to stand corrected.
- burnished 3y agoWell, are they your kids or her boyfriend's?
- Enginerrrd 3y agoOh! I understand the contention now. It wasn't really intended as an ad hominem against you. Rather, I meant that the passage to me reads like an incel-aligned world view being projected onto the author's description of what it means to be emo. The end result is more incel than emo sounding to me.
- jrflowers 3y agoI like that you posted something somebody else wrote and then took it personally when somebody commented on the nature of the text that you didn’t write. It’s good discourse
- sdsd 3y agoIt's funny that you say this because that's exactly how the word "emo" was used circa 2008. The same way anything really uncool and disliked and uncannily edgy is just reflexively called "incel", everything effeminate, dorky, and so on was "emo". Hipster went through the same cycle a few years after emo. By the time these words go so mainstream, they lose all of their nuance and just became fill-ins for basic emotions, I guess.