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Incels furious at TV show for accurately depicting incel culture (newsthump.com)

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The online incel community has taken a break from blaming women for their ongoing failures in life to issue a collective tantrum over Netflix’s new drama Adolescence, which dares—dares, mind you—to portray incel culture as the toxic, rage-filled echo chamber it so demonstrably is.

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[–] Bacano@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I agree, I think there's more to the story.

As for the example, I agree that there are impoverished places where people get along fine in their socio-economic status, meaning wealth is not a necessary factor.

I think the key difference with what's going on now in the western world is that young males are disproportionately being pushed to the bottom of the socio economic ladder with the cultural expectation that they have the same resource capacity as their older counter parts.

Another commenter noted the loss of third spaces and I'd add communities in general. People used to date within their communities more, I assume.

So I think it's more to the story like you said. Probably some perfect storm, of which, the general loneliness in the world is but one expression of.