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Thinking about Rent a GF some more, and how its romance only appeals to incels.
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After 9 episodes of fake dating bullshit, I have to wonder: whose fantasy is this? Like whose ideal form of romance is it that no woman will spend time with you unless you guilt and coerce them into doing so?
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Whose fantasy is it that some falls in love with you not because of who you are or even what you look like, but because fate and circumstance has forced this person to spend so much time with you that they don't really have a choice but to accept you?
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And the answer to that is: incels. Or more specifically, young men with VERY low opinions of themselves.
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I know firsthand what incel logic does to men. You vaguely understand that you're an undesirable piece of trash that no woman would ever touch. But you're also convinced that no amount of change would ever make you wanted. Incels call this LDAR: Lay Down And Rot
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If you're in LDAR, the only conceivable way to get physical intimacy from a woman is to pay her or trap her in a cage forever until she agrees to be with you. Rent a GF is literally about the first one, and it does the second one metaphorically through contrivance