Take it from moid: Clavicular may be a clown, but the misogyny of young men is no joke
A young man who believes hammering his face bones is actually making him attractive — and who gets attention by demeaning women, acting like a jerk, getting arrested and rage-baiting millions — has been making me wonder a lot about the state of the world, and our immediate future.
Clavicular is the nom-de-stream of a 20-year-old American named Braden Peters, whose handle has become synonymous with a you-can’t-make-this-up trend called looksmaxxing.
This is a thing that has been part of incel culture, itself something we’ve been living with (and studying) for years. It all gets weirder and more dangerous as the years pass.
Incels get their name from supposedly being involuntary celibate. They typically are young men who loathe and mock women, who are seen as not only rejecting incels themselves but their supposed place of being subservient to men. Over the years, the movement has radicalized young men whose rage at the world has turned to horrific violence. In Canada alone, incel culture has been behind the 2018 van attack murders in Toronto and a murder at a Toronto massage parlour in 2020 so severe it was designated terrorism.
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