Replies to post #487353 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[fuagf]

OMOLIVES, Could say the measure of delusion exhibited by someone who believes in an active, organizing God is a mental illness, yet society doesn't. Or the measure of delusion exhibited by those who believe Trump tells the truth could be described as a mental illness. Yet society doesn't. Same for incels.

"It's just packaged horse shite' for the masses...like so many others."

Could say that those who say the word cult describes just packaged horseshit, yet society doesn't say that about Trump's cult.

Could say those hyper-cynics as you seem to be have a mental illness. Society doesn't.

[blackhawks]

So you take active participation on online forums as an indication of what, the total population of them?

You continue to miss the point, it IS a thing and it HAS drawn the attention of science.

How psychologists can address the growing incel problem

While it is useful for psychologists to understand the broad-scale drivers of young male syndrome and incel self-identification that we outline here, there is also a growing need for psychological research on individual variation in response to these drivers. Why do some men gravitate to incel identity and some incels adopt misogynist and violent views, whereas some in similar circumstances do not? How does the acquisition or loss of power shape misogyny (e.g., [15])? Research could address how