The community’s veneer of public acceptability enables it to operate much more brazenly in plain sight than incels, protected by those “cheeky womanizer” pop-culture stereotypes. And as incels despair of ever having sex, PUAs pursue it relentlessly. Yet the two groups have more in common than immediately meets the eye. Both groups depend on the separation of men and women into narrow, highly stereotypical categories. Both cast heterosexual sex as the pinnacle of male achievement and portray women as little more than objects whose sole purpose is to provide sexual pleasure to men, like some
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