[tsol]

People seem to disagree with this comment but it makes sense. Lots of people get no genuine sexually or emotional attention sure to severe disabilities, cultural incompatibility, weight issues, or simply because they don't know how to socialize properly. It's odd to say they can't live a full life, just because they didn't kiss a girl in the 9th grade.

If relationships are so key to the human experience, the incels would be right. They argue society should feel bad for them and accommodate them, because not being able to get sexual attention keeps them from having a normal life.

Not that I agree with them, but it seems odd to place so much value on relationships, except when people complain it's a problem they can't get one. I have a severely disabled friend who talks about wanting to get married every day. No one has ever shown him that kind of affection and I don't think anyone ever will. That's life for some people unfortunately. If you keep telling them they're missing out on the most important part of life of course it just makes them more frustrated

[johncolanduoni]

Just because something is key to the human experience, doesn’t mean some other person personally owes sacrificing their literal bodily autonomy to accommodate another who is missing out. We don’t have to pretend most people can live a happy life as a sexless hermit (we just had a large natural experiment on this during COVID) to avoid demanding anybody has to date someone they don’t want to.

[eptcyka]

Human relationships are a key part of most lives. Incels might have a point, but that does not imply that they have a solution to their own woes.

[creata]

Yep. The world's a cruel place. The only choice for some people is to look beyond it for happiness.

[anon84873628]

That's individuals deciding not to be with other individuals. It's not two people of the same sex who want to be with each other but are arbitrarily prohibited by the rest of society.