I guess THIS is where I should have put my first post.
Greetings all!
New member here.
I had never heard the term incel until fairly recently I guess. I might have come across it in Angela Nagles ‘Kill all Normies’ which I read shortly after it came out. My nephew who is now in his early 20’s and he’s a pretty brilliant young man with a steady gf and is gifted in an artistic medium,…anyway, a couple/few years ago my sister (his mom) had told me he was obsessed/anxiety ridden @being (or the prospect of being more accurately) an incel.
I’ve been married since 2007 & I’m sure I’m not the only person who has been involuntarily celibate for protracted periods of the time. The reasons are legion. Work schedules, raising a child, long stretches of being more of a roommate than a romantic partner. The most blaring reasons almost certainly obvious to siblings & friends, which I am completely oblivious and/or in denial @.
Anywho, seeing ‘Adolescence’ was a psychic sucker punch as, it clued me into the challenges ‘kids’ are facing/dealing with that is literally in front of my face but are blended into the spectacle in such a way that is incomprehensible to me. The only comparison I can make (weak as it may sound) is Graffiti in the 1980’s. To my parents & even elder siblings it was all so much nonsense. I, on the other hand was privy to, as well as being involved in it as a powerful medium of communication,…
Please excuse the rant. I am grateful for this place to learn, think, exchange ideas & hopefully stave off looming insanity.