Clavicular Really Doesn’t Want You to Point Out That He’s an Incel
Clavicular hates being asked about his relationship to incel culture. The “looksmaxxing” influencer straight-up walked out of an interview because of a question about it.
60 Minutes caught up with Braden Peters, the kid’s real name, and Adam Hegarty asked him if he was an incel, straight up. Obviously, the 20-year-old didn’t like that too much and simply got up and walked out. This is a common theme with these kinds of influencers. They enjoy poking at minorities, women or liberal-leaning people. But, don’t ever try to embarrass them in front of a crowd. Now, the bully is being bullied all of a sudden.
“I mean, how could you ask me that question as a follow-up after you asked me about my relationships to women?” Peters all-but snarled. “I mean, that’s quite literally the worst sequence of questions I think I’ve ever heard.”
Hegarty calmly reframed the question. Honestly, its more respectful than a lot of people would be. “Looksmaxxing was obviously a term created by the incel community,” the journalist clarified. “How do you feel about being linked to that group?”
Is Clavicular an Incel?
It’s hard to try and come back from that, but young Clavicular was going to try to make an attempt anyway. Things are getting noticeably uncomfortable in these clips. So, the Internet took notice in short order. It’s not everyday you get one of these incel influencers in front of cameras they don’t control.
Peters argued, “I’m not linked to that group in any way. Looksmaxxing is self-improvement, right? So it’s about potentially even ascending out of that category, so that would be kind of one of the goals — to dissociate from being an incel and overcome that. So that doesn’t make sense.”
Interesting line of thought there! A lie with a few coats of paint. But, an ideology all the same. In Clavicular’s mind, it’s not him directly perpetrating any harassment on these women he’s never met. So, who’s to say if he’s really an incel. The man is arguing that he’s just encouraging men to better themselves. Which, it’s barely debatable that’s true.
Incel Culture more broadly
A disproportionate amount of incel culture is posturing for other dudes. No two ways about that. These men are fracturing their jaws, getting surgery, and doing god knows what else to earn the approval of the other men in this community. An entire group of boys and men focused on fitting what the stereotypical visage of “masculinity” looks like in the media. It’s kind of sad to be honest.
Want an example of that posturing? Here’s Clavicular trying to mock this reporter. “I see you want to make this political,” Peters snarked. “Too bad I didn’t have time to look into, you know, anything about potentially, you know, who your wife cheated with, but don’t try to go down that line of questioning with me.”
Just a sad state of affairs, but this is how the Internet has grown as the last decade puttered on. Hopefully, more men can learn to just accept themselves instead of following the pied piper to infamy.
(featured image: CBS)
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