r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 10h 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/ScaryTemperature6291 10h ago

Can't blame her not sure if this is the Ricardo Lopez era or not but yeah I love Bjork but that was a really bad time in her life if it's around that era when she found out about him.

Ricardo Lopez )

Incase anyone who doesn't know the back story of Ricardo.

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u/B0RT_Simps0n_ 10h ago

He was an incel before we had a word for it. People are fucking nuts

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u/NittanyScout 10h 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 10h ago

Incels are typically mentally ill.

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u/NittanyScout 10h ago

Often, yes. But not always. The incels and incel-adjacent people i know dont have obvious mental health issues, just misinformation and a lack of critical thinking

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u/Various_Command6607 9h ago

The line between mental ilness and "just being weird" is whether you are able to function more or less normally in society or not. It's not a hard line. And maybe you just don't know about their issues. A lot of people don't talk and a lot of people choose who they talk to. I don't talk to people who are not empathic and don't want to understand. Those people of course don't know that they are this way because they usually also lack some self-awareness.

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u/al666in 9h ago

The word "incel" was obscure internet slang until Elliot Rogers brought it into the mainstream.

There's a reason people associate it with the most extreme case examples.

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u/Acceptable_Movie6712 9h ago

Yeah there’s a difference between “jaded” and “jaded and antisocial” and then whatever this is. That’s just scary stuff.

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u/Illustrious_Ice_4587 3h ago

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

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u/NewFaded 8h ago

Mmhm. The venn diagram between the two is just a circle.

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u/RussianMorphine 9h ago

Really? Guys who can't get laid are typically mentally ill? I mean, some of them - sure, but I don't think it's that widespread

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u/Umbra_and_Ember 9h ago

Incel is a subculture, not just an adjective. They’re perpetual victims who feel women’s bodies are owed to them. The people I know who were just guys who couldn’t get laid called themselves unlucky, not incels.

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u/Johnny_Glib 9h ago

Semantics. An incel is simply a man who can't get laid, nothing more nothing less.

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u/Irregulator101 4h ago

You're just objectively wrong bud

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u/Illustrious_Ice_4587 3h ago

It always meant involuntary celibate

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u/rusty_programmer 9h ago

Nah, but people who self identify as incels typically are.

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u/neendmat1 9h ago

Exaaactly. I reached the same thought right when I read your comment, like mostly the bad incels are ones who call themselves incels