/lit/ - Literature

>>13366925
As others have stated, most normal men have had SOME romantic/sexual experience. I would wager a lot of "incels" have too, hence the hatred of "fakecels" amongst "true incel" communities. I think the increasing precarity of young adulthood - people living with their parents longer, people unable to find long term secure work, the declining popularity of real life community gatherings in favour of online interactions means that its harder to "hold down" a relationship in the way you used to be able to. One thing that really pisses me off with people my age is this weird cynicism people have toward community. Like it's lame to hang out with real people and enjoy things together. It's much more fashionable to be detached and online, than to engage in a feeling of shared enthusiasm with people in the flesh. I'd wager that if a lot of incels lowered their social standards and started going to warhammer shit or anime clubs they'd eventually find some pussy to root. Those things are gay though so I understand the reticence.

While it's important not to exaggerate, as Nagle points out I do think Japan should be seen as a warning rather than an oddity. I think the current state Japan is in right now should suggest that its not *all* in our heads and that there really is something going on, even if it's not cataclysmic at this stage.