It'd be splitting hairs to say this as a correction to that last RT, because the pipeline does start with the recruiting of teenagers by promising to teach them how to get laid, and "becoming an incel" is a step in the process but people are burying such a dark and frightening pipeline of hate groups operating as recruitment centers for more overt hate groups and mainstream media reporting has thoroughly confused the issue on what "incels" are all about by reading the self-applied label as "ashamed virgins" and...
This is easier if you watch Blade 2.
That seriously was me pausing a moment so you could go watch Blade 2 real quick and we can continue.
So the premise there is that we have vampires, which are horrible monster people who prey on and convert normal humans into other vampires, but then now we also have these weird super vampires whose whole deal is that they primarily prey on and convert regular vampires into them.
This basically is how the whole incel pipeline goes. Impressionable kids get recruited into one weird little hate group with a bunch of propaganda, and then once they've stewed in it for a while and are maybe starting to smell all the bullshit, someone comes along to recruit them into the next, much worse group down the chain, explaining that the first group is too naive about how things REALLY work, and introducing a new wave of much worse propaganda. So, the starting pool we're working with is just kind of... mostly passive misogyny. This is really broad, and honestly there's several different tributaries feeding into it, but basically we're dealing with the whole pool of guys who don't really meaningfully interact with women who aren't blood relatives, accept weird sexist crap in the media and half-baked fan theories from playground rumors as fact, and get their heads up their ass about how "women don't play games/watch Star Wars/have whatever other interest" and are just like... eating bonbons and reading fashion magazines or whatever the hell it is they assume we do in our spare time that isn't the same stuff everyone else does.
I don't want to suggest that sort of sexism is "harmless" or anything, but there's a passivity to it generally, where people just accrue a bunch of ridiculous assumptions.
So OK, people stew in that for a while, and eventually they're primed for the idea that women are these weird alien creatures whose brains work in a completely different way, and the reason their interactions with women aren't like what they see in the media they're consuming is that they just "don't know how to talk to girls" because there's some kinda fundamental gulf between the genders and you need to essentially learn a new language or something.
This is where they get recruited into Pickup Artistry. Where there's this whole crowd of hucksters promising to teach guys how to make women willing to sleep with them by decoding the secrets of the feminine mind and such.
I think a decent enough percentage of the people reading this probably have at least a passing familiarity with the main gimmicks of pickup artistry, since this particular layer of muck is still close enough to the surface and reaching out broadly enough for there to be books on it that sold enough copies for normal people to pick them up and go "what the hell is this bullshit?" So you've probably heard all the "tips and tricks" like "negging" women at bars and "peacocking" by wearing fancy hats or something (and yes, this is where the whole thing where we all spent 15 years mocking fedoras came from and getting into arguments about how no these are actually trilbies, Indiana Jones' hat was a fedora).
Anyway, all of pickup artistry really boils down to the idea that if you really really just want to have sex with a random stranger and yo go out to bars and ask enough people you should eventually bump into someone else who also just wants to have sex with a random stranger and all those books full of tips and techniques are secretly just teaching people to be unbearable asses, so everyone else will end conversations at them immediately and they can move on in their quest to find the one super horny woman with zero standards quicker. So some people eventually realize that these techniques don't work and grow functioning social skills, and some people see through the smoke and mirrors that it's all a numbers game, but everyone else stews in this getting increasingly distressed at how they're following the tips and tricks they were taught and it still isn't working. So now they're ripe for recruitment into the next group, the Betas.
Here, the recruiters explain how the whole notion that you can read a book or go to an internet forum and look up cheat codes on how to make women want to sleep with you is total bullshit, but not because those guides are full of downright harmful advice. No no no, that much is true, according to these recruiters. The problem is that the pickup artistry approach is treating women like they are members of some foreign culture with a different language and culture they just need to learn, and what they really need to do is start looking at women like animals acting on pure instinct, and get into studying evolutionary biology.
Here everyone is given a bunch of (let's be real, crude summaries of) literature by total quacks using a mix of treating totally fictional media about "caveman times" and discredited and/or grossly misunderstood research into the mating behavior of various species, thrown into a blender with some surprisingly common misunderstandings of how evolution works, and coming out with this nonsense conclusion that women, being creatures of pure brooding instinct, assess all men based on their "physical fitness" (which in this case means being strong, being tall, and having the largest penis possible) and their wealth/social influence.
This is, it should be noted, where the whole "Virgin vs. Chad" meme first originated. The idea is that if following pickup artist manuals isn't working for you, it's because you are an inferior, or beta male, and all women will pass you over for a superior alpha male until you become one.
So... that original crappy MS Paint drawing really was someone sincerely telling people that if they resemble the person on the left, they must strive to transform into the... thing... on the right, somehow.
And on paper that's not the worst thing, since you'd hope the practical approach would be people trying to take better care of themselves, exercise more, get more ambitious in their pursuits, and these are generally good things to do regardless of whether you've been indoctrinated into a weird cult to try and trick women into being attracted to you,
but you've gotta remember we're dealing with people who it's already been established believe women are strange alien creatures who don't consume media and respond to social cheat codes like they're videogame characters, and we're far enough down the pipeline here that people are swinging by the fairly centralized and off the grid forums the Betas are spending all their time in to toss out weird right wing propaganda. We're starting to get into the layers where @DavidFutrelle swings by looking for stuff to throw up on wehuntedthemammoth.com where people share breathless panicky essays about how monogamous sex makes your penis bigger but sleeping with multiple people makes it shrink. So most of the "become more alpha" talk is really impractical/absurd/selling snake oil. The whole "soy boy" notion is on the least harmful side, and between the fact that at this point, we've had people stewing in these various pools of misogyny for years, maybe decades, trying all these stupid tricks, and the fact that no seriously the primary propaganda line at this level is that you need to think of women as farm animals, general contempt for all women gets fostered pretty quick, and NOW we can finally recruit these poor damned souls into the incel pool.
Here, our big reveal on how the last pool was bullshit is to disavow that there is any sort of mobility possible. Betas cannot become Alphas.
"The Virgin" cannot become "The Chad." And of course those women you've been chasing this whole time and have recently come to see as mindless beasts unworthy of any respect are more like 3s and 4s at best and not 10s on The Objective Attraction Scale but won't give you the time of day even though you're like a 7 because every single one of them is confident she can land a 10. "The Chad" while still a prominent figure in all their propaganda, is no longer some goal to work towards, but a villain in this new mythology. Some asshole lucky enough to be born desirable to all women, while the incels have access only to the inferior women Chads cast away, and then only if they can be broken and give up on their impossible standards.
So... we're pretty goddamned mask-off about all the fascism and violent misogyny at this level. If you look at the sort of discussions being held on the real honest to goodness "Incel" forums, any notion of trying to become more attractive to women has been dropped in favor of brainstorming on how to remove any sort of free will or consent on behalf of the women in the equation.
You've got people straight up advocating that rape should be legal and writing advice books on how to avoid being convicted of it-
https://splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/mike-cernovich
You've got people proposing women being enslaved and distributed out by the government as state-mandated girlfriends for all complete with this actual petition and an itemized list of all the mandated duties of these government-issued girlfriends, which I would share with you if not for the fact that I'm trying to stick to one link per post.
And you've got crap like this one:
Replace women’s brains with dog brains so they’ll have sex with us, Incel proposes
So hopefully you can see why people interchangeably using the terms "incel" and "virgin" bothers me. We're another good 4 varieties of super-vampire down and there's nothing approaching humanity left. But I mean just for what it's worth, this whole pipeline hasn't actually been about virginity related insecurities for a long time. Pickup Artistry "works" in the sense I outlined several posts ago. Spend all your time trying to get women to sleep with you and some percentage will. The whole process is about the growing sense of entitlement, paired with an increasingly dim view of women. By the time someone's in the Incel pool he usually has an ex-wife or two even, it's just that now he believes it's a grave injustice if any given woman he takes a personal interest in doesn't worship him as a superior being. It's not "no woman will sleep with me," it's "this specific woman won't sleep with me, and I'd be doing her a favor if I did."
But believe it or not we're not at the end of the pipeline. Because you can only spend so much time stewing in the most radical of far right propaganda and telling yourself you are actually like the pinnacle of human achievement outside a few lucky freaks of nature before you get sick of lying to yourself about all your unacknowledged greatness, but at this point you're still convinced you've seen through at least a good 5 different veils revealing ever greater truths about the world, so abandoning the cult and trying to rejoin society is absolutely off the table, so it's off to what is sort of inherently the final fetid pool, with only the densest sludge, which is even right there in the name, Black Pilled.
Here the big reveal is that the whole "you're like a 7" angle from the Incel level is a total lie, as recruits admit that no they really are basically the worst humanity has to offer. And hey, for once, that actually is fully true. But again, the break point for becoming an incel is giving up on the whole notion of self-improvement, and at this point these people are frankly no longer really capable of viewing anyone who isn't an absolutely raging far-right misogynist with anything but pure contempt, so they get into a mindset of "I'm a lost cause, and must sacrifice myself in the hope that it might help those who have come with me on this long journey to achieve their dreams."
And I mean, so we're clear here, those are the dreams wherein all women are either forced into sex slavery or murdered so their bodies can be reanimated with dog brains.
Some of the more grounded ones are more content with simpler goals like "starting a race war" or "murdering all those girls who wouldn't sleep with me," but hey if you want specific goals, they tend to write big long manifestos before their killing sprees:
So, with the understanding that this is what the pipeline is, and some resources you can use to verify it for yourself (again,
http://wehuntedthemammoth.com is a great filter for all your abyss-staring needs if you need to see more shockingly awful things for this to click), what now?
Well, we dismantle this whole messed up pipeline and bust up the forums where these increasingly rarified hate groups gather to radicalize each other into jumping to the next one. As that old article of mine advocates, that can pretty much be accomplished all at once by removing 4chan and reddit from the face of the internet entirely. Of course, that's kind of a big ask, and hard for a single individual to do.
It's also possible to mitigate the whole mess by pulling recruits out of the pipeline while they're still reachable. Again, to tie this back in with Blade 2, double-turned super vampires are a total lost cause we just can't have around, but the regular ones, just a step or so along the process here have enough basic humanity left that they can be reasoned with still.
So, I dunno, maybe quit putting stuff out there where "the hero gets the girl in the end," aggressively correct sheltered little boys (and the ridiculous old men they sometimes grow into) when they start spouting off nonsense about those weird woman-brains that don't appreciate games and genre fiction. Maybe take another pass at debunking pickup artistry as a total scam. The one nice thing with a pipeline like this is there's plenty of places you can damage it that really make it hard for the later pools to fill up properly.
