THEI egg in the French newspapers of young people who stab them with the same age, in the name of the ideology of “involuntary celibacy”. They are not simply boys rejected or left that they want to take revenge. They are not just young people because they don’t find a girlfriend. They feel victims of a cultural trend: the condition of the heterosexual white male, which has always been privileged, is perceived almost as a historical fault to serve; And they react in that unacceptable way.
Any form of violence is disturbing and is to be condemned. This phenomenon then seems particularly serious to me. The aggressive reaction is very serious, of course. But It also gives the general trend to think: the rarefaction of physicality, the difficulty of many young people in establishing relationships.
Mind you: the world, especially for men, has always been composed of a Small minority of boys who are successful with the girlsyou want why beautiful, rich, casual, safe, and of A vast majority that is pending as it can. Given ten men, there will be one who attracts many women, and nine who at best find a stable and satisfactory relationship.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Vangi Gilbert).
But in the era of social media, virtual life, network, physical relationships between people are increasingly rare and more complicated. I don’t know if young people are more shy, if they are less interested in sex and love, but for sure they are more difficult for them than it once was. And then we tend to blame others. To the other sex, to other people.
The word incel derives from the abbreviation of “involuntary celibates” (Photo Getty Images).
I really don’t understand how you can virtually fall in love with a human being who has never seen each other, touched, sniffed, embraced. But it happens, and before judging we must try to understand why. The drunking of the network and virtual life factory discomfort and unhappiness. Then better Tinder, which is then the digital version of the old dating agencies, rather than these solitudes that generate monsters.
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