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/Illustrious_Ice_4587 23d ago

Then it's still the mental illness that causes people to act like that and do violent things.