Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

prodigitalson

(2,431 posts)
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 12:32 AM Nov 2022

Incels - a question

My purpose isn't to start a debate on the legality or morality of sex work. But it is legal and regulated in many jurisdictions around the world including the state of Nevada.

These losers who have built entire personal identities (and even a pathetic social movement) around the fact they can't get laid despite their perceived entitlement in that regard can't scrape together a plane ticket and some condoms?

What am I missing?

38 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Incels - a question (Original Post) prodigitalson Nov 2022 OP
Cause and effect are reversed relayerbob Nov 2022 #1
Oh I totally understand why they can't get laid . prodigitalson Nov 2022 #13
If it's just a matter of sexual release, they can entertain themselves. Ocelot II Nov 2022 #14
You're right. Haggard Celine Nov 2022 #28
No need to entertain themselves there are all kinds of toys available and more being developed. Prairie_Seagull Nov 2022 #38
I dsagree, it's not about sex, that's just the outward symptom relayerbob Nov 2022 #18
Nope I_UndergroundPanther Nov 2022 #31
Because it's about entitlement, not sex n/t leftstreet Nov 2022 #2
Not about sex. betsuni Nov 2022 #3
They don't want "to get laid". They want the beautiful submissive porn star they were promised. TygrBright Nov 2022 #4
+1 2naSalit Nov 2022 #10
THIS Hekate Nov 2022 #15
+1 betsuni Nov 2022 #24
+1 dalton99a Nov 2022 #37
They are vile misogynists first. ismnotwasm Nov 2022 #5
It's about power (or perhaps "powerlessness" is better). RockRaven Nov 2022 #6
+1 leftstreet Nov 2022 #11
It's not that they can't 'get" sex... brooklynite Nov 2022 #7
It's not about sex. It's about what they feel the world owes them. Also? Sex workers aren't WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2022 #8
100% correct on both answers Orrex Nov 2022 #17
"Incel," while true for some of them, is a misnomer. Oneironaut Nov 2022 #9
would finding an actual girlfriend make a difference then? prodigitalson Nov 2022 #19
They don't want to have to buy it; it's not really about sex. They feel entitled Ocelot II Nov 2022 #12
A large number of men through the ages couldn't get laid.. TreasonousBastard Nov 2022 #16
And if any man cannot project enough love to a woman DemocraticPatriot Nov 2022 #26
They live in a world of bad music, bad video games, bad TV and movies, and porn. Gaugamela Nov 2022 #20
Most are pedophiles vercetti2021 Nov 2022 #21
difficult to treat NJCher Nov 2022 #22
Not all "sex workers" are out there to provide "sex for money" to you, DemocraticPatriot Nov 2022 #23
A good friend of mine is a woman who was a prostitute Victor_c3 Nov 2022 #35
Short answer-- incels would likely have more success with women DemocraticPatriot Nov 2022 #25
They'd have to improve themselves vercetti2021 Nov 2022 #27
Well YES, showering frequently would be helpful... DemocraticPatriot Nov 2022 #29
You cannot comprehend incels because this is what you are missing: Marcuse Nov 2022 #30
What Mr. Fuentes is leaving out... jmowreader Nov 2022 #33
As someone who never had an easy time finding sex or romance when I was young... Silent3 Nov 2022 #32
I had no luck romance-wise when young, but I'm a woman. Used to things not working out. betsuni Nov 2022 #34
Ser Bronn said it best... keroro gunsou Nov 2022 #36

relayerbob

(6,555 posts)
1. Cause and effect are reversed
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 12:36 AM
Nov 2022

They aren't unloved incels because they can't get laid. They can't get laid because they are assholes and then become incels. Most men can't have sex whenever they want at various points in their lives. They don't all become incels. Hookers won't help that self-loathing.

prodigitalson

(2,431 posts)
13. Oh I totally understand why they can't get laid .
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 12:54 AM
Nov 2022

Their misogyny in particular and their Cluster B personality disorders make them unfuckable through the conventional mutual attractions of homo sapiens. In turn this validates the preexisting misogyny and triggers accelerates the escalation of their disordered thinking and behavior.

Nevertheless their core frustration is not having sex. And that is still easy to do for whom all the above applies, just through a business transaction rather than said mutual attraction that they have no care nor game for.

So no, hookers won't help their self loathing. But wouldn't actually having sex at least calm them down a bit? They are incredibly overwrought just at baseline, not just when they doing terrorism

Ocelot II

(115,858 posts)
14. If it's just a matter of sexual release, they can entertain themselves.
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 12:58 AM
Nov 2022

Why else did God give men hands? But that's not what they really want. What they want is the status of having the most desirable women at their disposal in order to impress other men and prove how alpha they are.

Haggard Celine

(16,856 posts)
28. You're right.
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 02:35 AM
Nov 2022

A lot of men seem to want arm candy rather than any kind of relationship. Their goal is to make other men jealous.

Prairie_Seagull

(3,339 posts)
38. No need to entertain themselves there are all kinds of toys available and more being developed.
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 11:17 AM
Nov 2022

Not to long, haha there will be robot sex slaves. In fact may already be available. I have not done any research on this haha but for the cost of a few trips to a Nevada one could afford a devise that does not care of you are a schmuck.

relayerbob

(6,555 posts)
18. I dsagree, it's not about sex, that's just the outward symptom
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 01:06 AM
Nov 2022

They have incredibly low self-esteem, problems relating to others, probably dysfunctional families. They need power over others, recognition and validation. They really want love, but don't have a clue as to where or how to get something - something they likely didn't get from their parents. Having to pay for sex only proves to themselves their lack of worth and inability to attract others or have real relationships. Might help for a day, but after that, guilt and frustration would likely ratchet up. Also, they may well discover they have other issues with sexual dysfunction, and in many cases, I suspect, their secret closeted fantasies and hidden confusion about their own attractions to other men would bring about more fear and self-loathing.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
31. Nope
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 04:33 AM
Nov 2022

Entitled little boys in mens bodies want to be alpha make others jelous,make a women submit and take care of him and feed his ego and let him sit on his ass while she takes care of everything.

They want a mommy,a sex toy and a servant they can dominate control and abuse. Most women stay the fuck away from toxic men. Narcissist pieces of shit these incels are. They dont want love they want power over.

TygrBright

(20,767 posts)
4. They don't want "to get laid". They want the beautiful submissive porn star they were promised.
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 12:41 AM
Nov 2022

It was supposed to be part of the option package with the Caucasian penis, they were told.

They feel they have a right to be mad. They were promised their very own domestic walkin' talkin' sex doll, and instead all they get is other human beings who think they're shitheads and will have nothing to do with them.

dismissively,
Bright

RockRaven

(15,003 posts)
6. It's about power (or perhaps "powerlessness" is better).
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 12:43 AM
Nov 2022

Paying for sex wouldn't solve the problem, because they would still resent not being able to dictate the terms of the interaction without regard to the other party -- which is what they want/think they are entitled to.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,438 posts)
8. It's not about sex. It's about what they feel the world owes them. Also? Sex workers aren't
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 12:46 AM
Nov 2022

meant to be a solution to a problem like this.

Oneironaut

(5,524 posts)
9. "Incel," while true for some of them, is a misnomer.
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 12:50 AM
Nov 2022

They want sex, but, it’s more complicated than that. They’re a group of internet-addicted men, usually late teens to mid-20’s, that feel that the world has fucked them over. They feel like everyone else is having fun, partying, having sex, and getting attention, while they’re stuck in their basements.

They rationalize this by believing they were born physically inferior. “Chads” as they call them are normies who get dates and money that should be theirs because those men were born with physical features like chiseled chins, height, skull shape, etc.

Many of them aren’t virgins. They just resent women and social men, because they feel like the lifestyle those people live was stolen from them.

Their beliefs make absolutely no sense whatsoever, but, good luck telling them that. “Incel” boards are self-perpetuating, as in, if you start going down that rabbit hole hopeless, you’re only going to get worse and withdraw from society further.

You could give them sex every day, and, it wouldn’t help them. The lack of sex isn’t the issue. They’re mentally ill and full of resentment.

prodigitalson

(2,431 posts)
19. would finding an actual girlfriend make a difference then?
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 01:09 AM
Nov 2022

let's say for argument one of them could get one, and they made a connection, could they handle it? This is all very broad brush but it sounds like all four cluster B personalities are strong among them ( antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder)

This is the guy that dined with Trump and Kanye. It almost a year old but its really fascinating

Ocelot II

(115,858 posts)
12. They don't want to have to buy it; it's not really about sex. They feel entitled
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 12:54 AM
Nov 2022

to have the most beautiful, desirable, and preferably submissive women throw themselves at their feet. It's not that they're horny - they're angry because the women they want to possess in order to impress other men don't want them.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
16. A large number of men through the ages couldn't get laid..
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 01:03 AM
Nov 2022

similar to wild pack animals who have been studied forever.

While with wolves and gorillas it is assumed to be an extension to evolution, when the mechanism is applied to us, we screw it up with our concepts of free will and rights.

I understand the frustration of some who watch local swordsmen of note surrounded by bevies of beauties because they can't get laid themselves, but a lack of introspection is just one of their problems.

DemocraticPatriot

(4,413 posts)
26. And if any man cannot project enough love to a woman
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 01:59 AM
Nov 2022

that he will be rewarded for it, lust does not suffice...


and to the advantage of men who do not appear to be 'Adonis', women are much much less influenced by what their eyes behold--

than by what their hearts behold..


The 'men' who do not understand that,
are now called 'incels'.....


Gaugamela

(2,496 posts)
20. They live in a world of bad music, bad video games, bad TV and movies, and porn.
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 01:24 AM
Nov 2022

(They choose that media. There are quality media as well, but they don’t understand it and think it’s liberal bullshit.)

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
21. Most are pedophiles
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 01:31 AM
Nov 2022

They believe young girls should be groomed to pleasure older men and be virgins. They think its disgusting to have sex with women that has already lost her virginity to quote on quote "Tyrone" yes they are also racist as hell. But they don't desire "stacey" because shes had too many partners and is a whore, slut or enter derogatory name here. They want under age girls that are groomed to love them and be slaves. Truly disgusting subhuman trash.

NJCher

(35,732 posts)
22. difficult to treat
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 01:41 AM
Nov 2022

there certainly are some interesting responses to your question.

I can't venture an opinion because I don't know anyone like this nor have I followed enough news stories or psychology articles on persons with this disorder.

I don't know how one would become familiar with this issue.

I do know one thing, and that is that personality disorders are nearly impossible to cure, i.e., there are no solutions at this time.

Can't recall which noted psychiatrist or psychologist said it, but this person said he'd take a schizophrenia or a manic depression case any day over a personality disorder because they are so difficult to treat.

DemocraticPatriot

(4,413 posts)
23. Not all "sex workers" are out there to provide "sex for money" to you,
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 01:42 AM
Nov 2022

whether you can afford a plane ticket and condom, or not...


Many, all over the world now, are only "cam-girls"...
and the men who presume that they are "prostitutes" because they get naked over the internet,
are simpletons....

In the past 2 years, I have become rather "immersed" into the 'cam-girl culture',
and fell in love with several of them-- mostly Colombian women...


They are not "whores", but incels who think all women are whores, would have no clue...

Anyway, I stand to defend all cam-girls who bare their flesh on the internet, in the hope of earning some income...
They are all alone in their camera rooms-- but give much comfort to lonely men like myself who happen to be polite and romantic.

However, many incels or self-entitled other white men are easily recognized when they enter the chatrooms...

Usually they say such things as "show me your tits, baby", or "do you like anal?" or "open your ass!"--
all before they say "hello"...


I like to tell them that these girls are human beings, that this is not a slave auction, and "don't say anything to them that you would not say to a girl in a bar--- and if you would say that right off, you deserve to have your face slapped"!


Sorry for the rant, prod, most of it was not intended for you personally. Happy Holidays!

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
35. A good friend of mine is a woman who was a prostitute
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 07:52 AM
Nov 2022

She’s a very interesting person to talk to for a variety of reasons.

A lot of people don’t understand that sex work is still work and that the people who perform sex work are people too. Sex workers provide an important service that fills an important need for a lot of people. I never understood why sex workers are looked down on and generally treated so poorly.

DemocraticPatriot

(4,413 posts)
25. Short answer-- incels would likely have more success with women
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 01:54 AM
Nov 2022

if they made more of an attempt to LOVE them,
rather than 'expecting sex' on the first or second date,

if they were lucky enough to get a first or second date...

and hating them if they did not "get it"...



Am I right or amirite??


(in the meantime they could avail themselves of their right or left hand,
with which they are undoubtedly very familiar...)

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
27. They'd have to improve themselves
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 02:12 AM
Nov 2022

They can't see the irony in themselves that they are the problem. They blame everyone but themselves. Whether it be if they are short in height, ugly or haven't showered in months. They can't see it in themselves that they are the issue. Self awareness doesn't exist in inceldom

DemocraticPatriot

(4,413 posts)
29. Well YES, showering frequently would be helpful...
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 02:37 AM
Nov 2022

Myself, during the Covid pandemic, I became lazy about that---
since I was not attempting to 'get close' to anyone,
I have resorted to wearing a baseball cap along with my mask--
my biggest worry about showering frequently was for 'presentable hair'...
so now I cannot believe how long I can avoid it...


On the bright side, I have saved money for my 'water bill'...


I suppose my 'self-esteem' has suffered, on the other hand...

Marcuse

(7,508 posts)
30. You cannot comprehend incels because this is what you are missing:
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 03:05 AM
Nov 2022
MEN HAVING SEX WITH WOMEN IS GAY, CLAIMS ‘STRAIGHT’ RIGHT-WING PODCASTER NICK FUENTES

The podcaster had some enlightening insights for his viewers – that gay people date girls. “Gay people do date girls all the time,” said Fuentes. He claimed that on Twitter “all these gay people are coming out and saying, ‘I’ve had more girlfriends than Nick. I’ve had sex with more girls than Nick’.

Fuentes said that was proof that gay men were dating girls. “Not only is that thinking (that he is gay because he doesn’t have a gilrfriend) flawed, but actually it’s the reverse. That actually makes me really more heterosexual,” the podcaster claimed.

“If we’re really being honest, never having a girlfriend, never having sex with a woman really makes you more heterosexual because honestly, dating women is gay. (Men) having sex with women is gay. And having sex with men is gay and it’s really all gay.”

Fuentes further claimed that “the only really straight heterosexual position is to actualy ‘incel’… What’s gayer than being ‘i like cuddles, I need kisses'”.

[link:https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/men-having-sex-with-women-is-gay-claims-straight-right-wing-podcaster-nick-fuentes/212955|

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
33. What Mr. Fuentes is leaving out...
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 06:49 AM
Nov 2022

...is that "one" counts as "had sex with more girls than Nick."

MeidasTouch has that "expose" video on Fuentes up. He goes into this huge description of what he wants in a woman...and it's pretty obvious why he doesn't have a girlfriend. The outstanding one was that he expects this hypothetical wife to bear him at least five children, at least three of which must be boys.

Okay, so listen close: THERE IS NOT ONE HETERO MALE ON THE FACE OF THIS PLANET WHO CAN'T FIND A WOMAN TO HAVE SEX WITH. If you don't agree with me, take your little liberal tail straight to Walmart on a Saturday afternoon and look at the married couples walking around in there. You will find:

men you can smell from thirty feet away
men with more-punchable faces than Nick Fuentes has
men with absolutely no concept of proper grooming
men who scream at their wives over the most insignificant fault, who threaten violence...I've even seen some of these individuals take swings at their wives (yes, I found a manager REAL quick after seeing that)
men with no money
men who can't dress themselves
men so fat they look like they're in their ninth month of pregnancy

And...every last one of them is with a woman he's having sex with on a regular basis.

My Trumpist brother is also an incel, so I have a Sample Size Of One to go off here. If a woman who absolutely fit his laughably-insane criteria (one of the things he demands is a woman who is amenable to taking no other vacation than going to annual Marine Corps League national conventions) were to show up and demand he have sex with her right now, he wouldn't do it. It's all about self loathing for him. He loves to hate himself. He takes it out on everyone else through his incelism.

Silent3

(15,273 posts)
32. As someone who never had an easy time finding sex or romance when I was young...
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 05:19 AM
Nov 2022

...I can tell you (at least I'd think in some cases) it's not simply about getting sex per se.

It's very dispiriting and demoralizing to not be wanted by those you want. It's humiliating to feel left out of the sexual life that so many around you seem to have far less trouble with.

Paying for sex wouldn't solve that. It would just make you feel more pathetic to have to pay for it.

I never turned toward the kind of ugly misogyny that characterizes those we now call "incels", and maybe for some of them it's a very different thing than I went through, but I'm pretty sure I know some of what many of them feel.

Very few people, of course, find relationships and sex and romance easy. But it's still a very different think to feel you aren't even in the game at all. You have no bad dates to complain about because you have no dates at all. You have no bad sex to complain about because you have no sex at all.

Society tells you you're a loser for that. Even if you don't turn into a nasty misogynistic creep like many apparently do facing this kind of emotion pain, you still get the message loud and clear: you're a loser.

betsuni

(25,630 posts)
34. I had no luck romance-wise when young, but I'm a woman. Used to things not working out.
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 07:00 AM
Nov 2022

"I hate men but I'm not a lesbian!" as Seinfeld's Elaine says.

These "Incels" are weak moron children with absurd great expectations, not adults.

keroro gunsou

(2,223 posts)
36. Ser Bronn said it best...
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 11:06 AM
Nov 2022

B: the little king is backed up. clogged up, balls to brains
T: you think dipping his wick will cure what ails him?
B: nah, there’s no cure for being a count….

Latest Discussions»General Discussion»Incels - a question