🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 3 days agoAnon thinks there is a bicurious double standardsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square333linkfedilinkarrow-up1900arrow-down115
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minus-squareObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down7·2 days 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-22 days 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-22 days agoMaybe if they’re really young and weren’t on the internet when the word became popular, sure
minus-squareipitco@lemmybefree.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agowho else call people virgin anyways?
minus-squarekeegomatic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoGood point, but I still think incel carries a certain connotation of misogyny with it, though. Otherwise you would just say “virgin”
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”