• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I worry sometimes that I would’ve gone down that wrong path if my depression hadn’t made me predisposed to blame myself for things. Maybe that’s not giving myself enough credit, but I’m just glad I didn’t turn out to be a misogynist incel.

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      I poked my head into an MRA space back in the day, but I didn’t stick around because they annoyed me. It was all doom and gloom with no plan of action. From what I’ve heard about the incel community, it’s a thousand times worse.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I bet. I mean the notion that you’re “involuntarily celibate” is gross and somehow thinks getting laid is a human right. It’s been a while since I’ve dated, but I’ve come to realize that the fruitless years, so to speak, were self sabotage from poor self esteem and confidence. All because of dating apps making me think badly of myself.

        Turns out, men and women use the apps completely differently. The distribution of men’s interests to the overall population of women follows a bell curve. But, the distribution of women’s interests to the overall population of men is heavily skewed towards the top 10% – whatever the hell that even means. So plenty of great guys, the majority of them, walk away thinking they’re ugly and unattractive. Of course, we didn’t know this when the apps were just starting to take off, and they were used quite a lot in college. I wonder if some of the issues men as a whole face (lack of direction, higher suicide rates, etc) partially stem from this.

        Sorry, got onto a tangent haha