Huffington Post
July 29, 2013
One man has a suggestion to solve socially-awkward men’s dating woes: Institute a government program which would pay women to go on dates with them.
This is evidently not a joke. The blog “governmentsgetgirlfriends” is dedicated to discussing the issues of “incel” men (short for “involuntary celibacy”). According to the anonymous author of the blog, who says that he identified as incel from age 14 to 24, being involuntarily celibate means:
… chronic near-total or total absence in a person’s sexuality of intimate relationships or sexual intercourse that is occurring for reasons other than voluntary celibacy, asexuality, antisexualism, or sexual abstinence. It is the psycho-social opposite of having a sex life. Incel people, despite being open to sexual intimacy and potential romance with another person and also making active, repeated efforts towards such an end, cannot cause any such end(s) to occur with any significant degree of regularity — or even at all.
He goes on to suggest that governments fund programs in which women apply and are paid for going on blind dates with these socially-crippled men. (Unclear what socially anxious gay men or women are supposed to do.) “Women would freely apply for such program, as would incel men. Every woman would have a limit of 30 dates,” the blog explains. “If she doesn’t find a suitable partner during those 30 days she will be fired to prevent scammers — however, she would be paid the full sum, as would a woman who finds a partner during one of these 30 dates.”