I initially thought about posting this in the Official Sexual Harrassment thread, but I think it's probably a different, if tangentially related topic. After the Toronto van attack, there's been a lot of talk about "Incels" and online misogyny that embraced anti-female rage and inspires or even celebrates anti-female violence. As a nearly all-male online community ourselves, it seems at least worth thinking and talking about. For starters, however, I want to link to a female perspective on "involuntary celibacy", self-loathing and loneliness, to lay down a baseline for thinking about all of this from a place of empathy rather than just hand-wringing about moral decay.
As is too often the case online, I think the title of the article I linked largely misses the spirit and intent of the article, but that is what it is. What, if anything, do you think we as a society, or we as individual men, can or should do either to help or guide people who may be suffering from feelings of personal and sexual rejection, worthlessness and self-loathing, or to at least minimize the opportunities for it to trigger hate and violence (especially against women)?
As is too often the case online, I think the title of the article I linked largely misses the spirit and intent of the article, but that is what it is. What, if anything, do you think we as a society, or we as individual men, can or should do either to help or guide people who may be suffering from feelings of personal and sexual rejection, worthlessness and self-loathing, or to at least minimize the opportunities for it to trigger hate and violence (especially against women)?
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