The question that bothers me much more than why they can’t get sex is WHY incels base their happiness and worth almost entirely on sex and dating in the first place. That seems very problematic to me and getting closer to the core of the issue.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In capitalism you either have sex/dating or wealth that are pushed as the great things that make you "successful". I would probably look at their backgrounds and how they were raised to determine why sex/dating ended up ahead of wealth for them.

I think the cases where people don't fall into either of those two usually happen because our parents were a counterbalance against the hegemony telling us that those aren't important during the very important development years.