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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by ZeroCool@lemmy.ca to c/theonion@midwest.social

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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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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm inclined to think that these kinds of thought distortions are a product of the hyper commercialization and hyper commodification of our lives. People don't meet other people unmediated by consumption or a screen, so the ideas of what it means to connect are distorted.

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Careful, Archarnian. That sounds like anti-capitalist talk.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

[and i'm tired of pretending it's not]