If the experts on self-improvement and maintaining frame are not comfortable with using their skills to rustle up a wife in the West, maybe that says something about the conditions incels are experiencing.
BTW, I highly doubt all incels are overweight, unkempt, and smelly basement dwellers. That seems like a feminist trope used to avoid addressing the issue. Since many of these chaps are relatively young, they should focus on gaining the resources which will permit them to eventually improve their prospects elsewhere, assuming this lockdown nonsense does at some point end.
Very much agree. The word "incel" has become absolutely meaningless these days as it gets tossed around quite liberally to broad-brush single men, most of which would be married with children under normal circumstances. The reality is that we're all programmed to want to procreate so celibacy used to be the exception, not the norm, because patriarchal societies provided marriage as a means to channel our innate sexual energy and in doing so created a more or less functional harmony between "male" and "female" where adultery and fornication were punished.
But since the patriarchy has been abolished and marriage has been stripped off its meaning thanks to no-fault divorce laws and feminism, [civil] marriage has become absolutely meaningless, and sex is just a commodity. The false idol of "equality" has destroyed the natural complementarity of the sexes, upsetting the balance between men and women, and leading the West to become effectively ruled by women. It's the worship of the Feminine as its foundational principle, demonically inverting the natural order. As a result, we have deep-seated structural problems that prevent men from bonding meaningfully with women as well as from gaining financial and professional stability
even if they wanted to and did what they possibly could.
So to brush off as "black pill" what is essentially a "truth pill" and accuse people of wallowing in self-pity when they point out these problems is, frankly, intellectually dishonest. You correctly pointed out some of those structural problems in your post, DavidKnight.
It's time to stop mocking "incels" as degenerate "failures" and aim our arrows at the demons that have created "incels" in the first place. This quote from the movie Fight Club quite accurately assesses the nihilistic society they've created:
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy stuff we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war... Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
Considering the rates of unemployment, depression and suicide among young men in the West, we have a very, very serious problem on our hands and pretending we can just solve this by telling individuals to "hit the gym" is nothing short of delusional in my book. And not just in the West for that matter. Look at Japan, look at what's happening to South Korea! Have we seriously lost all touch with reality? Did our (great-)grandfathers need to "hit the gym" to get married? Of course not. How many of them had time for "hobbies" or needed to "expand their social circles", you think? Mine never had the luxury of having "hobbies" or a "social life" yet they still got married, never divorced, and were able to provide for their families despite their limited means - their wives may have complained as women like to do, but overall they were
content.
If anything, I think we should teach the more demoralized among the "incels" to courageously accept reality and redirect their negative emotions toward more wholesome pursuits rather than obsessing over what they cannot have or is beyond their immediate control. Above all, their spiritual well-being, by putting God first; but also by encouraging them to take care of their emotional, personal, physical, financial or professional improvement...
for their own sake and not primarily as a matter of increasing their chances of finding an overly idealized "trad" wife.