Megafierce
6 points·1 hour ago
"That's what happens when you cherry-pick studies and put zero thought into any of the other factors.
For example, one major reason promiscuous women might be less happy is because of how harshly society treats promiscuous women, even though it doesn't affect anyone else. The promiscuity isn't the problem here.
Of course, it's the same case with those studies that "confirm" you're unfuckable. Incels love to quote the 80/20 myth, and yet some people have said that the dating site that study was done on would have caused women to automatically be flagged as a potential match if they'd rated men any higher, which would severely affect the results. There's also no mention of the general ratio of men to women on the site, and no mention of what the women generally looked like to begin with - after all, as women are judged on their appearance much more harshly than men, they tend to avoid posting pictures of themselves if they think people will react negatively to them, and so "the bottom X%" would be much less likely to be on a dating site (where people are judged on little else than appearance) at all.
The point is, there are so many things that factor in to these results, you can't just boil it down to black-and-white reasoning.
Unfortunately, admitting that would not so easily justify incels' lack of motivation to actually do anything about their lives, so they try to force it anyway."
Interesting. I like that type of mindset tbh. Would you be willing to, say, apply it to studies that allegedly prove that all romantic or sexual contacts between adults and people under a certain arbitrary age, even if already sexually developed, cause trauma and other problems?
Maybe what traumatized the underage people was the fact the people who were involved with them got jailed and had their lives ruined, since pretty much all those studies are done with cases where legal prosecution happened (the only exception I can think of is the Kinsey Report, which was basically about young boys getting repeatedly raped by old men). It could very well be perceived by the underage people as "they were jailed and had their lives ruined because of me/what I did", which would make things even worse.
Maybe what traumatized the underage people is the fact they're brainwashed since childhood to believe all sexual/romantic contacts between underage people and adults are evil.
Maybe what traumatized the underage people was the fact they were mostly sent to a psychologist after the fact, to be convinced that what happened was wrong, evil, abusive, etc. That and all the people they know telling them the same and acting differently towards them.
Maybe the correlations found in such studies are not enough to prove the status quo opinion that all underage people get traumatized if they get involved romantically or sexually with an adult?
Or maybe, just maybe, crazy hypothesis here, the trauma correlations found in young children who got violently raped can't be extrapolated to sexually mature young people who got involved with adults without any violence or coercion taking place. I know, this seems very far-fetched, but just maybe?
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