• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Man, even as fucked up as we teens were in the 80s, we didn’t have incels. Anyone talking like that would have been shunned, at the least. They simply wouldn’t have a voice, let alone echo chambers to back them up.

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      8 months ago

      That’s a good perspective to remember and shows the impact of social media. It concentrates good and bad alike.

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      8 months ago

      We absolutey had incels. They were just as angry, but they included society in general for their problems and trash talked women, they just didn’t have the focused echo chambers we have today that let them run the mental gymnastics that placed so much blame on women. They didn’t have the incel label to wrap around themselves. They more or less became shut-ins living at home getting drunk and/or stoned, so yeah, they absolutely were shunned.

      If you take a few minutes and actually think about your high school and the few years following I bet you’ll remember a few people that fit the bill.

      For some reason killing a bunch of people because incel rage hadn’t entered the zeitgeist; even though workplace shootings did happen they weren’t remotely on the scale of mass shootings we have today.

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      8 months ago

      This is simply not true, the thing is back then not every single sensationalist story got past local.

      They weren’t called incels at the time because that word wasn’t created yet, but every school had that strange kid that would do incel-y behaviors.

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        8 months ago

        Which is funny because Zack did a hell of a lot more incel-like behaviors, but because he’s handsome he gets a pass.

        Like the cubicle meme.