I did not expect this this post of mine to attract as many people minimising SA as it did. Bit of a downer, yeah.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2024
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For the past few weeks there have been multiple people on here really showing their asses by upvoting or commenting outright incel shit on various posts. This has convinced me that Hexbear needs another fucking purge.
i feel like tensions about dating and romance have really begun boiling up the past few years in general. there was a short period a few years ago where i thought incel-ism was dying out as an identity, but these days it seems bigger than its ever been
I've found myself asking a whole lot more frequently this past couple months "how the fuck did something like this get so much traction here" against outright incellish and/or racist bullshit.
I’d like to blame it on federation, but it feels homegrown tbh
anecdotally browsing by active I'm seeing a lot more new names around than I used to. People who weren't here for all the past struggle sessions