Our thanks to Gerry for this. He writes:
I find it interesting that nobody has thought to reverse the argument in this situation. The fact is that if a woman mocks a man for being an incel she will be applauded. But if a man says he wouldn’t shag a woman then he becomes a misogynist.
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Agreed Gerry. And when a woman does make fun of incels, like Olivier Wilde did, it is punching down, by any metric. At least Laurence Fox was punching straight, when he hit back at Eva Evans.
I see Fox has issued an apology. And poor Dan Wootton has lost his column with the DM and likely show on GB news. The reality is that in a gynocentric society “banterish” comments are easily characterized as boorish. The irony is that this rule is a product of chivalry and therefore “patriarchy” and now invoked by feminists, here to great effect. The sad bit about this is Norcott’s clever questioning caused an apology from Ava Evan after supportive coverage of his point that she trivialised men’s suicide. Now completely overshadowed. As Gerry points out that’s how its pans out in our society.