DAVID FUTRELLE ON TORONTO AND SOME REMARKS

     David Futrelle---who is a male feminist and far-Left politically---wrote an editorial yesterday in Elle Magazine about the social dangers posed by radicalized men in the INCEL movement. Futrelle's piece has a lot of predictably Radical Feminist bias; but his analysis of what fuels INCEL (and the Red Pills generally) is generally accurate. We're going to offer some commentary here on the passages that show some insight and summarize with its relevance to us as Conservatives.

      "What makes the INCEL subculture so dangerous for young men who engage in it" Futrelle says, "is that it takes the bitterness and sadness we sometimes feel when faced with sexual and romantic frustrations and turns this misery into a mode of being. Instead of encouraging them to move on from their disappointments, the INCEL subculture encourages young men to stew in their own bitterness."

     This is entirely true; at least as far as the objectives of INCEL leaders and pundits go. The problem that I've seen among most in this movement is that sexual/romantic frustration is an effect; rather than a cause of their radicalism. However, Futrelle is correct in that men who've become emotionally vulnerable are easy prey for Red Pill propaganda.

      In our last article, we pointed out the desperate need for male leaders and men of maturity and experience to step up to the plate and start offering alternative advice to the Red Pills and the INCELs. The lack of these kinds of men is leaving the field wide-open for Radicals to recruit them. 

       Futrelle goes on to make another good point: "INCEL culture tells young men that their problems are unfixable...INCELs direct so much hatred at the outside world---and at women in particular---that it's easy to lose sight of the many ways that INCEL culture promotes a deep and hopeless form of self-hatred."

       As a political 'Progressive', it's doubtful that Futrelle puts much stock in Classical Psychology, but he's basically explaining the same dynamic as what the Psychoanalysts call projection. To be specific: sexual frustration may not necessarily lead to self-hatred, but it does bring out such thoughts and suspicions. The INCEL propagandists validate those suspicions---and at the same time they cultivate in their dupes the belief that people outside of their victims' ego-fields are responsible for it. In other words, the typical INCEL feels worthless, but he believes that worthlessness has been imposed on him by others. It's not hard to see how men in this state of mind can become extremely dangerous. And their leaders, in turn, incite them to acts of violence which they themselves haven't the courage to commit.

        Futrelle goes on to warn that "if these young men aren't stopped" there would be more like George Sodini, Eliot Roger, and Alec Minassian. Unfortunately, he's right about that too; although he doesn't explain here how they should be stopped. Of course, we can all point out that Feminism is radicalizing and cultivating self-hatred in women too. But that isn't the point. 

         The point is that the failure of Conservatives to address this issue of male radicalization is effectively ceding the Moral High Ground to the Left, like David Futrelle and the SPLC. We have seen some hope among Christian Conservatives like the Southern Baptist Convention and the Conference of Catholic Bishops. But much more needs to be done and said---especially by our political leadership. We need men like William F. Buckley who exorcised from Conservatism the Birchers and the Randians; the Alt-Right of his day.

         Despite what the Red Pills say, maintaining the Moral High Ground is the key to our movement's ultimate victory. Without it, we're no better than the Left.