Is this an emerging mental condition? — Benj96
I think it is a matter of weak brains that are more susceptible to religiosity, ideology, and magical sophistic and same-sex solipsism. It is no mystery that incels have a direct connection to scientism that supports their delusions and conclusions of females and women, and it is this that directly separates an incel from a sexless man that does not identify as an incel; because to identify as an incel is to accept the ideology of the incel that is cultivated around black pill science, lookism and biological reductionism - in a way, it is more respectable than Manosphere men who reject the realities of how deformity can hinder a man or woman from finding attractive mates, but the incel 'science' is a radicalized delusional form of self-defeatist obsession and OCD, many having a form of body dysmorphia to boot.
On the topic of mental disorder and illness, covert narcissism, OCD, body dysmorphia (see incel 'bone-crushing' and obsession with scientific facial terms and plastic surgery), autism, bi-polar, depression, impulsivity disorders, substance additions, and debilitating social anxiety all exist in these communities, as well as learned sociopathic behavior and inactive antisocial traits - all in which have nothing to do with women or lack of, in addition to being more susceptible to religiosity, ideology, and magical sophistic and same-sex solipsism they also have all these underlying conditions which also have nothing to do with women, nor would having a woman suddenly appear solve these issues. They would simply just be paired up with a woman, and then divorced later. Women and others are not sympathetic because of all that listed, the narcissism still persists it is women and the innocent that are the problems - a cultish form of collective gaslight on the innocent or recipients. This to me is a form of ultimate insanity, expecting or desiring compassion and understanding from the victims you have beat it out of.
Even more so, it is an institutionalized 'sub-identity.' The same as manosphere red pill men is also an institutionalized identity. Unlike Red Pill men that aim to deconstruct the traditional notions of masculinity and redefine them how they see fit under completely arbitrary criteria outside of conservative and traditional norms (which - that is sloppily anti-science and based off patterns of experiences, confirmation bias and ancedotal evidence, the incel identity is developed through a completely submerge in scientism revolving around "
Black Pill Science", that plainly states the reasons for a man's inceldom is directly linked toward lookism and a man's physical appearance and not his masculinity, unless the masculinity is referring to masculinization of phenotypical traits and appearances.
Incels believe in a complete biological reductionism of both males and females, and the only way to overcome their shortcomings is to overcome their biological shortcomings, it mostly focuses on a biologically deterministic/reductionist viewpoint, similar to the Red Pill that deviates because it attempts to 'fight back' and 'control the narrative' by first deconstructing Judeo-Christianity masculinity and 'creating their idea of the ultimate man, made by any-man/men' themselves, while being completely at the mercy of evolutionary biology or the 'biology of female nature'. In that way, we see men 'recreating what men should be' in the form of idolized psuedo-identities/characters like Andrew Tate - but this man neither exists in any real way - (not even to Andrew Tate) - which justifies his actions. Which is why you see a lot of distinctions without differences in such men, such as liberating themselves from the 'provider role' while going on to preach to men that through money and materiality, only you can have women - effectively just going from involuntarily servants to voluntary slaves.
In the opposite, Inceldom is a complete shredding of all other identities to completely submerge into the 'incel'. He no is no longer a man, he is no longer Michael, he is no longer anything but an incel, and his identity is now indistinguishable from his ideology.
What is fuelling the upsurgence in men that self identify as incels?
The reason for that I think is first
a weakness for religiosity and magical-thinking in the mind in the first place. As we see with many men in these communities, they are 'religious-minded' first, even as atheists or non-believers, and susceptible to then, fall into these deep forms of magical-thinking and biological reductionism/absurdities.
Male brains that are more susceptible to religion, are also more susceptible to be adopted or indoctrinated into cults, which was no surprise to me when Roosh V (the man that advocated for legalizing female rape), turned to God and religion when his sister died, because there cannot be enough space for both forms of magical-thinking. Religion is notorious in deflection and accountability-eliminating coping strategy, so it does not surprise me one bit that such men would just radicalize in other forms of magical-thought if they were to leave Inceldom or RP rhetoric.
Do you think that perhaps the way dating apps are designed has some influence? Are we becoming too objectifying as a society? Is the incel "movement" dangerous? To whom and why?
So many questions on this bizarre subject.
I think it is a matter of weak brains that are more susceptible to religiosity, ideology, and magical sophistic and same-sex solipsism. I think the sooner we fix this, the more we can start getting these men to think more clearly. My advice would be:
1. Tackling religiousity and magical-thinking/delusions, replacing with reason and critical thought.
2. Addressing mental health crisis and better treatment for convert narcissism and cluster B profiles. A majority of treatment is for the victims, and not the narcissists themselves. If you are a narcissist, the advice is basically 'you are doomed' and you are the target of a mass witch-hunt.
3. Learning stoicism.
4. Erasing this idea their issues have anything to do with women and not heavy dependence on religious coping methods.