🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 6 months agoAnon thinks there is a bicurious double standardsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square338linkfedilinkarrow-up1927arrow-down115
arrow-up1912arrow-down1imageAnon thinks there is a bicurious double standardsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 6 months agomessage-square338linkfedilink
minus-squareObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down8·6 months ago Incel implies a level of indoctrination into a misogynistic POV No one is thinking this deeply when they call a man who just said/did something they don’t like an “incel”. People just use it mindlessly as an insult, same as with “virgin”.
minus-squareRobertoOberto@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-26 months agoI think people who haven’t been been the target of insults since high school (or maybe ever?) forget how petty and uncreative it often is. The point insulting someone isn’t to be truthful, it’s to be hurtful or put them down.
minus-squarekeegomatic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·edit-26 months agoMaybe if they’re really young and weren’t on the internet when the word became popular, sure
minus-squarekeegomatic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoGood point, but I still think incel carries a certain connotation of misogyny with it, though. Otherwise you would just say “virgin”
minus-squareipitcolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoAt some point, when insulted of being a virgin too many times, you become misogynistic, so they end up being right Some are creating the monsters they’re fighting
No one is thinking this deeply when they call a man who just said/did something they don’t like an “incel”. People just use it mindlessly as an insult, same as with “virgin”.
I think people who haven’t been been the target of insults since high school (or maybe ever?) forget how petty and uncreative it often is.
The point insulting someone isn’t to be truthful, it’s to be hurtful or put them down.
Maybe if they’re really young and weren’t on the internet when the word became popular, sure
who else call people virgin anyways?
Good point, but I still think incel carries a certain connotation of misogyny with it, though. Otherwise you would just say “virgin”
At some point, when insulted of being a virgin too many times, you become misogynistic, so they end up being right
Some are creating the monsters they’re fighting