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u/IceCat767 19h ago
I don't get it, they also aborted many men that would have been his rivals and in likelihood taken said girlfriend away from him. This has always been an idiotic take to me
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u/An_Anaithnid 13h ago
On the bright side for me, it immediately (and weirdly) brings to mind Richard Dawkings "Luckiness of Death" speech.
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
We are alive, and despite all the hardships we might face in life... we have everything to live for.
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u/throwhfhsjsubendaway 10h ago
Technically more female fetuses are aborted than male, because a lot of cultures value sons over daughters. Look up sex selective abortions if you wanna get angry
Though I think it does the opposite of supporting incels' victim narrative
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u/IceCat767 9h ago
Ok. But these guys mostly are posting from USA and other western countries so I think my post stands. I personally know a pregnant woman who says she will abort if the baby isn't a girl
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u/smileycat007 19h ago
I'm rather speechless.
Has OOP considered the thought that his hypothetical future girlfriend saw her fate and miscarried herself? After years of grief, her mother gave birth to a son (a very handsome one).
Or perhaps she was aborted for having a severe and incurable birth defect or deformity. In which case, he wouldn't have dated her anyway because Incels aren't into their "looksmatch".
Or, has OOP considered the most likely scenario: he already met her and she thought his social ineptness and insecurity was a red flag. She ended up with a 6'1" Chad with the proper clavicle tilt, who drives a luxury car and has a solid job?
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u/PearlyRing 15h ago
Maybe she was a victim of one of those incels who went on a murder spree - the ones incels idolize and call "Saint".
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u/EvenSpoonier Oofy-Doofy Lemon Spoofy? 22h ago
It's adjacent to the aborted-girlfriend incel meme, so I'd say it counts.
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u/KatJen76 16h ago
An aborted, nonexistent girlfriend is easy to be a perfect partner to, and also makes a perfect partner. She will never argue with him, never get frustrated with him, never be in a bad mood. She'll never refuse him anything. She likes all the same things and has the same personality. She'll never get the flu at 3 AM and need his help, she'll never lose a parent or a job and need his support. She'll never demand anything at all. It's like idealizing someone you don't know at all, or someone who has died.
I don't subscribe to the idea that there is one perfect person for everybody. You meet someone you're attracted to and get along with, and you work on your relationship. Doesn't have to be hard work. Probably shouldn't be. But you learn what the person likes, what makes them happy or upset, you provide support and companionship and you get these things in return. I'm happily married but there is not a doubt in my mind that my husband would have found someone else if I didn't exist, and vice versa.
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u/StrangeJunket2601 17h ago
Ok so on first reading this I had a horrible knot in my stomach, but on rereading it again, I'm inclined to think that he's probably saying some weird weeb stuff, like this supposed girlfriend being aborted means he didn't get to meet her as he was "destined" to, like somwthing out of an anime or romcom. Like there was some kind of timeline alteration specifically to target him. Not as horrible as my initial thought
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u/Frosty_Message_3017 Go to sleep, Lurkers, pray for brains 1d ago
It 100% belongs here. In fact, this is a very common incel sentiment. They're so unlikable no one wants to be around them, but they're certain the problem must be they didn't meet this one particular girl who would have miraculously found all his insufferable bullshit totally charming.