An Ambitious Proposal Regarding the Plight of the Incel
How the free market, not redistribution, can bring relief to the involuntarily celibate man
In recent weeks, many have become acquainted with a new kind of struggle. The ancient plights of racial inequity, wealth inequality, and gender disparity are well-worn causes. A lesser known battle burns all around us, however, and now we must give it voice.
I speak, of course, of the involuntarily celibate man, or “incel,” as is his preferred title. The incel cannot fuck, despite his ardent wishes to the contrary. It is not that there are no partners who would consider his company. It is that there are no partners who would consider his company — that he wants. And the partners that he does want, he finds to be having sex with men who are not him.
We must take him at his word: this is a deeply painful position in which to find oneself. The incel’s critics lack empathy for his position. They suggest he need only reconsider his attractions, broaden the scope of those he finds to be acceptable and desirable partners. What these critics fail to understand is that this is a violation of the happiness to which the incel is entitled. Only the incel can say who his partners ought be. He says they ought to be of the highest possible “sexual market value.”
