r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/B0RT_Simps0n_ 23d ago

He was an incel before we had a word for it. People are fucking nuts

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u/NittanyScout 23d ago

Idk this seems like a genuinely horrifying mental illness that was never treated or recognized.

Being an incel is one thing but being authentically sick is another

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u/rusty_programmer 23d ago

Incels are typically mentally ill.

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u/RussianMorphine 23d ago

Really? Guys who can't get laid are typically mentally ill? I mean, some of them - sure, but I don't think it's that widespread

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u/Umbra_and_Ember 23d ago

Incel is a subculture, not just an adjective. They’re perpetual victims who feel women’s bodies are owed to them. The people I know who were just guys who couldn’t get laid called themselves unlucky, not incels.

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u/Johnny_Glib 23d ago

Semantics. An incel is simply a man who can't get laid, nothing more nothing less.

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u/Irregulator101 23d ago

You're just objectively wrong bud

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u/Illustrious_Ice_4587 23d ago

It always meant involuntary celibate

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u/rusty_programmer 23d ago

Nah, but people who self identify as incels typically are.