let me tell you guys something that ACTUALLY happened in my screenwriting class last week
one of the female writers in our class is writing a feature about this gang of teenage girls who sort of become vigilantes and murder men who harass women (that’s a shitty logline of it but it’s actually fucking awesome and highly stylized and over-exaggerated like tarantino in a good way bc i fucking hate tarantino). ANYWAY their first kill is this guy named taylor. taylor is one of the girl’s boyfriends. it is heavily implied and the writer confirmed that he abuses and rapes her. not explicitly seen, but she has bruises, there are scenes implying it etc.
so. she wrote the part where they kill taylor. and one of my professor’s comments was about how he felt like he didn’t hate taylor enough.
to which me and my female friend were like um what?? we hate him. he fucking raped and abused her. wE HATE HIM. HE IS A HORRIBLE PERSON.
and my prof was like well yeah i hate him but i don’t HATE hate him. and we argued about it. so he took a poll of who hated taylor. ALL of the girls in the class raised their hands. none of the boys did. when he asked who didn’t hate taylor all of the men raised their hands. and me and my friend started laughing because of COURSE they did.
and my prof was like why are you laughing and the writer was like “i think they’re laughing at the gender difference in that answer” and my prof was like “well, from my male perspective, i don’t think i’m being sexist”
WHAT.
first of all did you hear that sentence at ALL do you understand how paradoxical it is?????
second of all, no. just no.
and then my prof went on to say “i feel like we need to see taylor be horrible. like bad solution, he kicks a dog”
evidently a man can abuse and rape a girl and not be hated, but if he kicks a dog then he’s PURE EVIL
I feel like a lot of this bullshit about “well maybe if a woman HAD dated [an incel] he wouldn’t have been so angry and violent” because it’s absolute victim blaming. They really think so little of women that they give credence this falsehood that these shitstains believe about their entitlement to women
Because make no mistake these are angry, violent men. If they weren’t angry and violent about women, they would be angry and violent about something else.
And if a woman HAD dated one of them, they would have likely been angry and violent towards her, and we would ask how she could be so “stupid” as to not recognize he was violent and stayed away
“If only women would date these violent men there wouldn’t be so much violence!” – Society
“Why do women stay in abusive relationships? Geez, if your partner is violent just leave!” – Also Society
There is genuinely no way to win with Society like this.
They don’t see women as people, merely objects handed to men as a reward.
Which is exactly how incels see women.
Incels are 100% a product of our society
And I think it’s unlikely that all these incels never ever dated anyone.
I think it’s more probable that when they did date someone, it didn’t work out — as relationships often do — and it embitters them. Perhaps at some point they quit trying. Then they place the fault onto the women, because that makes the narrative more tolerable to them. (As my ex did/does).
And I think someone else in my feed at some point also pointed out, it’s entirely possible they can get laid or dated. Just not by the specific women they desire. Which, well, is part of life and relationships having. A mature adult accepts this and moves on. (IMHO,ofc). You don’t go making movements out of it and killing people.
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