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I'm trying to view things under the perspective of a normal individual discovering the incel community and wondering why it exists.
The reason the incel community exists is because the sexual revolution of the 1960s merely removed social barriers to sexuality. It did not remove biological barriers embedded deep into mankind's primitive brain (preferring partners who are young, attractive or dominant) or the way our reproductive system works (in all mammals, available uteruses are less common and more expensive than sperm cells, making females an object of competition).
Most members here fell at some point for the modern truism that "you'll get a girlfriend at some point". This is a truism because it actually works... But just for a strong majority, not for everyone. Everyone here waited and waited for a high school GF and then college GF who never came.
The sexual revolution silently and permanently excluded around 20% of males (the ugliest and weakest) from the reproductive pool. These are the males who make up this community.
In the way of solutions, I don't see any except a technological and technocratical approach (raising the looks of everyone through genetic engineering and plastic surgery, and ensuring every citizen can get a partner of acceptable looks).
Canceling the sexual revolution is impractical for several reasons, and it wouldn't solve the problem that nobody can be really attracted to an ugly old partner.
The reason the incel community exists is because the sexual revolution of the 1960s merely removed social barriers to sexuality. It did not remove biological barriers embedded deep into mankind's primitive brain (preferring partners who are young, attractive or dominant) or the way our reproductive system works (in all mammals, available uteruses are less common and more expensive than sperm cells, making females an object of competition).
Most members here fell at some point for the modern truism that "you'll get a girlfriend at some point". This is a truism because it actually works... But just for a strong majority, not for everyone. Everyone here waited and waited for a high school GF and then college GF who never came.
The sexual revolution silently and permanently excluded around 20% of males (the ugliest and weakest) from the reproductive pool. These are the males who make up this community.
In the way of solutions, I don't see any except a technological and technocratical approach (raising the looks of everyone through genetic engineering and plastic surgery, and ensuring every citizen can get a partner of acceptable looks).
Canceling the sexual revolution is impractical for several reasons, and it wouldn't solve the problem that nobody can be really attracted to an ugly old partner.