100's of millions of young men around the world are technically 'incels' since they are not attractive enough for the dating world. If 1 in a million decides to shoot up a school you can't blame it on the incel phenomenon itself. Violent people can exist within any movement/group.
It is a fact of nature that attracting sexual & romantic partners is way more difficult for heterosexual men than it is for women and gay men. If you are genuinely concerned, you can start by wholeheartedly acknowledging this reality so that its part of the mainstream discourse. Maybe then you can offer coping mechanisms.
Right now, if young men talk about the obvious imbalance in the dating world they are immediately dismissed and gaslit by society, and have no choice but to form isolated incel communities on the web. If their realities are within the mainstream consciousness the incel spaces wouldn't exist.
100's of millions of young men around the world are technically 'incels' since they are not attractive enough for the dating world. If 1 in a million decides to shoot up a school you can't blame it on the incel phenomenon itself. Violent people can exist within any movement/group.
It is a fact of nature that attracting sexual & romantic partners is way more difficult for heterosexual men than it is for women and gay men. If you are genuinely concerned, you can start by wholeheartedly acknowledging this reality so that its part of the mainstream discourse. Maybe then you can offer coping mechanisms.
Right now, if young men talk about the obvious imbalance in the dating world they are immediately dismissed and gaslit by society, and have no choice but to form isolated incel communities on the web. If their realities are within the mainstream consciousness the incel spaces wouldn't exist.