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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait how'd we go from alpha/beta obsessed millennials to incels?

I thought incels were internet communities that blame women and society for them being permanently single/virgins or something like that.

And thought the former were the roided bro communities where a sentence isn't a sentence until it has some version of bro in it. Usually womanizers but as gym rats were also usually appealing enough to women.

Are these the same groups now? Lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The PUA-types and this alpha/beta/sigma nonsense really appeals to the incel crowd. They believe that they can somehow game relationships in order to get sex. Like, they do steps a, b, c--which is the kind of systems PUAs are/were pushing--and you get laid.

The whole thing is a constellation; I don't think any of those groups exists in a vacuum, and there's lots of points where they cross over.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Fuck me I'm old ๐Ÿคฃ Googled "PUA Types" and only got Pandemic Unemployment Assistance articles hahahaha I give up.