[rc-1140]

One thing about the post in its entirety, not just the content, that really stood out to me was that there was a commenter "kayla" who behaved exactly in the manner that the author outlined when talking about the "feminist" and "MRA" subgroups. They immediately jumped onto the aggressor's bandwagon, saying that the lowercase-i incels were simply too lazy to fix their problems even though extremely-generalized and dismissive solutions (prostitutes, therapy) existed.

The author tried to open a discussion about their position with an incredibly well-thought out response, and all "kayla" could do was respond to their own post afterwards about having sympathy for the users of the "dead berdoom" board on Reddit but still behaving in the same manner that the author outlined (i.e., just fix your problem you lazy bum).

It's very troubling that the type of person described by the author immediately arrives on site and starts their spiel.

[colmvp]

Yup, and that's why it's practically impossible to talk about in real life. All they do is push people who experience this into the darkest places of the internet.

Their beliefs that all you have to do is try harder belong in /r/thanksimcured

[Igelau]

Kayla's suggestion about prostitution was positively revolting. That position seems to hate just about everyone: incels should just go solve their problem illegally in a way that happens to be the antithesis of feminism.

[standardUser]

Sex work is in no way, shape or form the "antithesis of feminism". And I think it was clear that Kayla was suggesting that such work not be illegal, not that men go solve their problem in an illegal manner.

[yamellasmallela]

Isn't sex work peak feminism? Women choosing what to do with their bodies and also earning a living?

[JohnBooty]

In many cases, yes!

Though in practice women can end up pimped/trafficked. Or abused by their clients, with no legal recourse... which is of course why pimps exist, because having somebody to maybe-protect you may be preferable to no protection whatsoever.

Of course, legalizing prostitution cures a lot of these ills.

[ceilingcorner]

If the model did not accurately predict the hostile reaction, it was not a useful model.

[johnnyanmac]

perhaps troubling, but entirely unsurprising. Societal learnings won't necessarily be undone in one article, no matter how insightful. Especially when a group in question is lambasted on the internet as one actively regressing civil rights and social liberties