The Groypette Question?
Dumping my thoughts on the veliedangelcake / eme / renegade drama following the various twitter spaces with Brittany (JewBimbo)
At first I was entirely sympathetic towards everyone involved. Even though it was the consequence of atrociously poor OpSec, I tend to feel a pure distilled rage watching incels senselessly target women.
There's two things on my mind. Echoing what @lxxndria commented earlier, it's unfortunate to see the way Nick likes to recuse himself from commenting on or disavowing this glaringly wrong behavior from his own community. Really it would just take one word from him to quell this wave of harassment, and also establish a precedent. But he can't be bothered to do even that. It had me thinking about the difference between a gentleman, who stands up for women being targeted by other men, and someone who is just an incel-worm- a guy who abstains from protecting women out of a fear he'd look like a simp, or a white knight.
And secondly, regarding this "groypette question" debate - I've personally felt mostly neutral-positive towards groypettes, while having a tacit acknowledgement that many of them are mentally ill lowkey (Not trying to be cute when I say that just a genuine observation.)
They often have EDs, or romanticize domestic abuse, and I believe they're driven towards these incel-infested, predominantly male communities in search of attention and validation. Not all of them, but a lot of them.
And the concept of the "pickme" has been gnawing at me today. This feeling like, it's one thing to not take your own side, as a woman. Maybe you're passive. But it's another thing entirely, in my mind, to unite with the people who resent you and support them in their efforts. I was thinking how there's nothing much more contemptible than that.
I feel a shift today of neutral-negative towards groypettes and the archetype that's forming. And what exactly it means to be a groypette and the weight of identifying with that label.
So it did seem like Nick acknowledged the situation and defended the groypettes which is nice.
