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minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·18 hours agoConsidering that marriage was not optional for the vast majority of people and the extremely low standards for the treatment of women, incels would have been vanishingly rare. Maybe a few literal lepers.
minus-squaresp3tr4l@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoI feel we are both technically correct here. Were incels common? Almost certainly not. Were incels impossible? No. Rare, but not impossible.
Considering that marriage was not optional for the vast majority of people and the extremely low standards for the treatment of women, incels would have been vanishingly rare. Maybe a few literal lepers.
I feel we are both technically correct here.
Were incels common? Almost certainly not.
Were incels impossible? No. Rare, but not impossible.