For my first Twitter Moron of the Week post, I’m gonna go with a dude named Sean McCarthy. Sean is the founder of the Grubstakers podcast, which is ranges from alright to mediocre. It’s kinda like TrueAnon but without the cool characters. Anyways, Sean is pretty much a succdem with sympathies towards social fascism. While many times his tweets can be funny, especially ones about conspiracy theories, something he is an enthusiast of, he also has a lot of what can be described as shit moments. These include this “bit” where he pretended to be a female Catholic trad in order to use as a shield to yell at AOC and call her a piece of shit for sharing her experiences after the January 6th thing. I put bit in quotation marks because he kept jumping between his not-that-excellent bit and the normal vitriol against AOC that he already did on the regular. He did this weird female thing before to make fun of a trans woman that he didn’t like coming out. So, that’s kinda how it goes for him? If you can’t tell this guy is big among the stupidpol crowd, surprise surprise.
Normally this guy cycles through his dumb class reductionist takes, but today he hit a new high/low with this double whammy.
He’s talking about Incels in the dumbest possible way. Incels aren’t bad because they’re virgins. Incels are bad because they express frustration with their virginity in an incredibly toxic way. They lash out at women and blame them for their problems. This coddling of Incels doesn’t go anywhere and doesn’t solve the problem. Also, side note, maybe, just maybe, people aren’t calling Incels domestic terrorists because they’re virgins. Maybe it’s because they go into public places and gun down people, and then the incels on the forums celebrate them and fantasize about doing that same thing. Just maybe.
Check back in next Monday for my next post
Yeah it’s kind of a stupid term. How long does one have to go without sex before they become an incel? I would think most people would like to be in a sexual relationship but it’s not easy for everyone to just go out and get laid at will. That means they’re celibate involuntarily. But at this point the term is only used in two ways: to insult people or to describe reactionary men who exhibit toxic behavior, especially towards women, as a result of their failed sex lives. Obviously the latter group’s behavior is inexcusable and needs to be fixed. For people who are involuntarily celibate but still treat women with respect and work to improve themselves, hearing incel thrown around, or being called an incel, probably feels pretty shitty. I don’t think it’s constructive to lump those groups together and probably leads some people down the wrong path. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a virgin and rejection takes a huge mental toll. Perhaps it would make sense to find a new term that focuses on their toxic behavior towards women and not on their inability to find sexual partners.
