I would say it’s basic pattern recognition.
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Sunfoil@lemmy.world 11 months agoI would say a joke about how hard it can be for people to get a girlfriend immediately setting of incel alarms for you is being overly sensitive. It’s a very relatable and common experience for a lot of young men, so it is ripe for comedy. I guess struggling to get a girlfriend can technically make you involuntarily celibate, but I don’t think that was what you meant.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Sunfoil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
All men struggling to find a girlfriend are hateful misogynists? No, so it doesn’t help to immediately brand them as such.
Vub@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Hard for people to get a girlfriend”. People? GET a girlfriend?
The thing is that ALL HUMANS have a hard time finding someone meaningful for them. But only with the misogynistic and immature viewpoint of some men does it become this toxic and dangerous. Blaming some outer system instead of getting a grip of themselves and stop acting like whiny assholes.
Sunfoil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you think ‘get a girlfriend’ is some deeply misogynistic language indicative of how terrible the patriarchy is, you need to get some perspective.
This was a throwaway joke about struggling to find a girlfriend. There is nothing toxic or dangerous going on here. They’re not blaming an outer system. Lots of men do genuinely have problems getting the confidence and self esteem to approach women, calling them whiny assholes is not very helpful.
Tirade against incels elsewhere.