I removed my quote of what he said after a mod apparently removed his whole thread. Which needed to be done, but it would have been helpful if a mod had openly acknowledged why the thread was removed. It clearly went too far. Hopefully the OP at least got a heads up in a PM.honorentheos wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 4:23 pmInteresting take.
So DT posts problematically about attraction to underaged girls for years, posted about a relationship he had with a 17 year old undocumented Mexican girl, and threatens a poster with potential lawsuits because they have to repeatedly challenge his mysogynistic posts. So his response to having that called what it is (and it IS what I called it), he flipped out and then started multiple threads including one titled with the language quoted in Marcus' post above. So selective thread and post deletion occurred. But hey, let's pretend the threat is defamation and not the poster who regularly posts about how loneliness among folks like him increases the potential for violence (but he says it's not about him, he is just posting for a friend...)
Checks out.
The poster in question regularly makes a specious connection between loneliness and violence by implying, among other equally obnoxious reasons, that it is because women aren't made available to fix men's loneliness. The connection between misogynistic-incel-type behavior* and the potential for violence is actual and very worrisome, and it's one of the reasons I speak up. I hope people don't mind because yes it gets repetitive for me to keep telling him to stop talking about women as things, but the damage done by repetitive misogyny and sexism is real, cumulative, and has too much potential for leading to violence. Not everyone needs to say something, but someone does, and so I do.
*Here's some information on why i used the term 'misogynist incel' instead of just incel:
Mass violence connected to incel ideology has increased public and academic scrutiny of incel communities online. Although not all such communities support violence, and not all those who identify as incel will go on to commit violence, incel communities have drawn the public, academic, and policy world’s attention.
The Institute for Research on Male Supremacism recommends the term misogynist incel (which can be understood linguistically as similar to the construction of the term “racist skinhead”) to distinguish the male supremacist ideology and movement from personal identification with the term incel. A failure to distinguish people who identify as incels or “involuntarily celibate” (including women) from misogynist incels leads to flawed recommendations and significant misunderstandings of the nature of this community, the prevalence of misogyny in our societies, and violence against women. In this brief, we overview the formation and history of the incel community, focusing on the ideology of misogynist incels, and its basis in dehumanization of women and male entitlement, as it connects to the glorification and perpetration of violence.1
https://www.newamerica.org/political-re ... ve-summary