Forum Overview :: Jordan Peterson - Hero or Hate Crime? :: There's some phenomenon going on in a subreddit

[quote name="Vested Id"]that has I don't know what value or significance. It seems like misanthropic larping like at Caltrops.com but what do I know. That's not why "incel" is in the cultural quiver right now. A guy ran over a bunch of people with a van, and then people found a Facebook post which just happens to sound exactly like what 4chan would post if they'd hacked his account, and it was apparently timestamped at an unlikely time relative to the attack. You can believe it's real but I don't. Elliot Rodger was real but he was sui generis. But nobody is demanding better evidence that the van killer was an incel because they like the term too much. It's an upgrade from "virgin" because we all start as virgins, and they deserve to clean up their act and get laid, and someone will eventually oblige. An incel is an evil man who thinks he deserves something from a woman, and should be exiled and if possible destroyed. It's a total condemnation that has a lot of valence for <a href="https://twitter.com/ekp/status/991817194987114496">professional women</a> who suffer from impostor syndrome and wish they had the confidence of a mediocre white man and so on. I swear I'm not MRA (or alt-right) but between the Gillette ad and Covington and the new APA guidelines it seems obvious that there's been a real contemptuous shift against young men very recently, and the use of "incel" is a part of that in my opinion.[/quote]