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

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The Evolution of Involuntary Celibates

Incels believe that there is no real such thing as a femme cell because they would say it as a woman, women can just get sex whenever they want. They just have to simply lower their standards. But I think it's a real failure of cross-sex mind reading here because for incels, they see that as a net positive. The fact that she could get something is better than me. It's actually, it inflicts a cost rather than being net positive.

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