"In a community of online men who are often introverted and more comfortable with numeric fact than more abstract demonstrations of emotion, these Tinder graphs provide immediate reassurance."
I like how the article claims that we find a sort of defeatist consolation in the Blackpill (a way of coping, if you will), because the idea that "it's over" absolves us from personal responsibility and allows us to become content in our inferiority rather than sacrifice everything we have to get out of it.
But at the same time, it states that we are becoming radicalized and driven to "anger and retaliation" by the Blackpill, which would indicate that it is not a pathetic form of coping/consoling/learned-helplessness/cowardice at all but rather a source of collective power and consciousness which is to be feared.
These are clearly contradictory analyses, based on the premise that downtrodden people should be prevented from organizing against the systemic issues that oppress them and potentially upsetting the power structure, and instead made drunk on individualistic, liberal "self-improvement" nonsense which is not only nonthreatening to the power structure but actively enables it.
The question of whether the Blackpill is objectively true or not doesn't matter as such; the article absurdly casts doubt on it by calling us simplistic ideologues who aren't abstract enough to understand the supposed complexities of emotion (as opposed to the superficiality of facts, jfl) but even if it were to admit that the Blackpill is true, it wouldn't matter because the article is simply apologism for the status quo in the first place.
