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Why 'Progress' is Bad for Women - Mary Harrington

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Women Can Never Civilise Men

Incels are miserable alienated, disaffected guys who spend their time computer gaming and interacting with one another on the internet while lamenting the impossibility of getting a girlfriend. They blame women for some of their ills but I don't think it's a coincidence that we now have this sort of proliferating class of basement dwelling needs. Women often don't understand is women can never civilise men. You first need other men to do it. And then a woman can tinker at the edges. Right. So I think one of an underpriced downside of abolishing male single sex spaces has been the attrition of that kind of socialisation of young men. Some of that genuinely is downstream of

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