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Incels, Misogyny, and Castration

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Misogyny and the Incel Synecdoche

Incels deny the woman's castration so as to keep alive that fantasy of some kind of unrestrained complete enjoyment. I find it fascinating that when we think of fetishism, like if you think of Laura Mulvie's famous essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, she thinks of fetishism as disavowing his own castration. Like ultimately that's the, that's the end point. That's the goal. And that's why it can be so easily avowed because it's never about that. It's no, because it was not actually confronted.

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