• @[email protected]
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    81 month ago

    … you… don’t think there were people too poor, or ugly, or unhygenic, or rude, or abrasive, or poor of health, … to have ever had a sexual encounter, to ever be married … and to become misogynistic as a result?

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      101 month ago

      Considering that marriage was not optional for the vast majority of people and the extremely low standards for the treatment of women, incels would have been vanishingly rare. Maybe a few literal lepers.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        I feel we are both technically correct here.

        Were incels common? Almost certainly not.

        Were incels impossible? No. Rare, but not impossible.