Incel leadership is apparently making strides in redefining heterosexuality. According to the daily dot, incel celebrity Nick Fuentes recently went on a rant defending his status as an involuntary celibate, saying,
“gay people do date girls all the time … All these gay people are coming out and saying, ‘I’ve had more girlfriends than Nick. I’ve had sex with more girls than Nick … That actually makes me really more heterosexual than anyone.”
I’ll not bother with further quotations, as I recognize you are perfectly capable of reading the article and coming to your own conclusions. What fascinates me regarding this exposition are the mental gymnastics necessary to not only arrive at the conclusion that desiring sex is gay, but to defend that position. By this logic, asexuals are the true heterosexuals. Which is fine; if you want to define sexuality in this way to improve your own view of yourself, more power to you. Hell, by this logic, I’m gay as fuck, as I indulge in having sex with women AND desire to do so when I’m not having sex. I used to wave the pride flag in support of the gays. Now I get to be one?
Honestly, I’m honored.
If there was a gay agenda to turn everyone gay, Nick Fuentes just single-handedly pushed that agenda forward to its logical conclusion: with the exception of voluntary asexuals, we can all be gay!
Which raises another point: if you are consciously refraining from sexual activity, that does not fall under the purview of “involuntary.” By choosing to not participate in any sexual activity, with any gender, you are voluntarily celibate. Nick Fuentes has gone to extremes to defend his status as an involuntary celibate by claiming that all sex is gay sex, only to confirm to his followers that he is, in fact, not an involuntary celibate.
I’m honestly impressed with this level of rationalization and complete lack of self-awareness. It’s like proving that .999… is equal to 1: it’s possible, but the proof is incredibly complex and takes an unwieldy path to arrive at this conclusion. Of course, where mathematical proofs are concerned, each premise has to be true and each operation has to make sense. With rationalization, anything goes, and it’s up to the recipients to challenge the premises to disprove the conclusion. As mentioned above, there’s a lot of mental gymnastics going on; the premises are easy enough for anyone to deconstruct, but the conviction with which they are given leads me to think that Nick Fuentes is fucking insane. As stated by Frank Herbert in Dune Messiah, “Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.”
Here’s an individual that has so deeply entrenched his identity as an involuntary celibate that he is willing to go to extreme lengths to maintain that identity. It’s a tragic display of the murder of reason for nothing more than to defend his crown as Incel Supreme. To take another quote out of Dune Messiah:
A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation.
It’s a conflict of identity. Individuals such as these will never accept that they could be wrong; nay, they’ll double down on their wrongness and accuse anyone in opposition of being the antithesis of what they represent. I argue it’s an insidious form of narcissism. In Nick Fuentes’ case, it’s grandstanding about his impeccable track record and vilifying everyone who’s ever had and/or desired sex by grouping them all together as gay. It’s enough to make deeply insecure men reconsider their understanding of heterosexuality, provided they are willing to accept these arguments and follow along.
It’s both absolutely ridiculous and incredibly tragic. But here we are. Nick Fuentes still has an audience; despite his insane remarks, people still listen to him.
