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[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Considering that marriage was not optional for the vast majority of people and the extremely low standards for the treatment of women, incels would have been vanishingly rare. Maybe a few literal lepers.

[โ€“] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

I feel we are both technically correct here.

Were incels common? Almost certainly not.

Were incels impossible? No. Rare, but not impossible.