/lit/ - Literature

The term "incel" is now incredibly far removed from it's clever portmanteau-based functional definition: "involuntary celibate". Being a nebulous term, it's perceived meaning has been clouded when it's acting members just allowed themselves to fall into extreme reactionary thought. "Left wing" isn't appropriate. Anyone with a conscious (for lack of a better term) has attributed the label to these reactionary ideas, and for good fucking reason. Go into these forums. You will see a wanton lack of disregard for the autonomy and even humanity of women.

We all know this, and me even typing this far about the subject doesn't make sense until I establish that I have emotional stock in this useless issue. All things considered and then disregarded, the life of an incel is that of persistent tantalizing suffering.

I consider this important because I don't think that anyone really recognizes that these young men (less so but often women as well*, I haven't met a trans incel who wasn't asexual because let's be real) who can be defined as "incel" is suffering from individual sexual failure. "Inceldom" (shoot me) is usually attributed to a borderline comical series of failures to court women. Yet it's christ icon, Elliot Rodger, has never even approached one.

At this point I might start contradicting myself. I'm starting to get high because there is no other way for me to cope with this without being distant or intense with others, in whom I must somehow find a sexual partner. I just want to say that virginity isn't a problem intrinsically, it's just the absolute murder-blow to the existing suffering self-esteem. These young (again mostly) men were fed a bad bit in whatever this capitalist establishment had managed to socially construct and now we must rightfully castigate them for advocating for brutal rape and stochastic murder. As a leftist who still needs to save hex I feel like I'm fighting against myself. Books for this feel?

*This is just anecdotal, but during it's infancy there was actually a small fight to consider women as possible incels as well. This was abandoned.