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#660 William Costello: The Psychology of Involuntary Celibates (Incels), and Modern Mating

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The Evolution of Involuntary Infoluntary Celibates

Incels may be one of the first kind of generations of incels to really grapple with the idea consciously that, oh, wow, my whole identity could be based around me being an evolutionary dead end. Also throughout history, we've had kind of institutional ways of dealing with the surplus population of unpartnered young men in a society. But now those aren't available to us and it seems like that modern incels kind of they occupy themselves just online by being in on the internet in online worlds a lot.

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