Forever Alone

30th June 2019

You might remember that a while back, I posted a link to a YouTube video by an ugly Swedish fella who'd only had two girlfriends in his life, both of whom were abusive and controlling. This just happened to tie in perfectly with the research I'd been looking at, which suggested that the tiny percentage of people who genuinely aren't bothered by physical appearance, are usually abusive, controlling, psychos. Well, I thought you might like to know that through his YouTube fame, Ugly Swede has managed to find himself a new girlfriend. Let's hope, for his sake, she's different to the others.

Anyway, the reason I found this out is because I was doing some more digging into the incel (involuntarily celibate) community. Do you remember that incel in America who went on a shooting spree, and the one in Canada who drove his van along a crowded footpath? Well, after that second one, it seems a number of prominent incel forums were taken down by their hosting providers, forcing some interesting changes in the community.

Also interesting is the debate over whether or not the Canuck was even an incel. Apparently the whole assertion hinges on a single unverified screenshot of his Facebook page, which Facebook took down within minutes on his arrest. The court case is scheduled for early next year, so I guess we'll find out then if it was the real deal or not. The Yank on the other hand was most definitely an incel, albeit an almost uniquely atypical one. Regardless of how long you spend ghosting their haunts, you'll be hard pressed finding a single delusional narcissists who believes he's god's gift to women, and cannot understand why they don't find him attractive. To the contrary, there seems to be a universal and near dogmatic belief amongst incels that their loneliness is a product of their own genetically predetermined shortcomings in comparison to other men.

Anyway, after the term became toxic, a good number of incels apparently rebranded themselves as "forever alone". I heard one member describe FA communities as being "all of the sadness with only a fraction of the rage". Which brings me to the point of this post. The single saddest thing that I have seen since looking into this subculture, is that there's a subculture within the subculture, of men with no mates. Forget about blokes who are desperate for a bit of feminine affection; what these fellas write their tortured essays about is their dream of one day having a single solitary friend (male or female) that they can sit down and talk to, face to face. These are people who are completely and totally alone, readily acknowledge that their misery is brought about by their own deficiencies, and are also painfully aware that they lack the mental and/or physical tools to make positive changes in their own lives.

I tell you what, if that doesn't make you feel better about the state of your own life, I don't know what will.