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

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The Importance of Identity in Identifying as an Incel

Incels have difficulty achieving romantic or sexual success that it comes to cause you enough psychological pain that it becomes part of your identity. So I think that identity bit is important in differentiating between, oh, just circumstance. "I don't really think a time metric is useful," he says.

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