The most shunned group of people in society: Incels

"Incel" stands for "involuntary celibate". It refers to a person who suffers from chronic loneliness and pretty much a complete lack of any sort of romantic relationships, and this situation has continued for a very long time, often even decades. Some, even many, of them may be mid-aged and are still virgins, in other words, they haven't experienced sex with another person in their entire lives.

What makes the situation "involuntary" is usually not because they would have eg. some kind of medical or psychological problem (such as a physical or mental handicap or disease) that would stop them from having a romantic relationship. Instead, they are often pretty much normal people, oftentimes even pretty normal-looking (ie. not hideously ugly, morbidly obese, or other such things), but just due to life circumstances, upbringing, social awkwardness, and other such things, they simply have been unable to socialize and form romantic relationships for a very long time, sometimes even their entire lives.

Also what makes it "involuntary" is that the situation has not arisen for the lack of trying. Many of them do try to socialize and get to know people, but somehow it just doesn't work. They have hard time making friends, especially of the opposite sex, they have hard time creating deep bonds with people, and they often lack the experience and means to frequently socialize with people. Members of the opposite sex seldom show any interest in these people, perhaps because they are so socially awkward, or just because for one reason or another they just don't "click", somehow. Nobody seems to ever be interested in them romantically, perhaps because of their behavior and lack of charm.

Many of these people who do try, who try to be normal social people who are polite and nice to others, are often referred to as "nice guys", which has somehow become pretty much a derogatory term. Nowadays "nice guy" is pretty much a synonym for chronically lonely incels who try their best to socialize, in their earnest, but usually unsuccessfully.

And the very fact that "nice guy" has become pretty much a derogatory term speaks about the problem I'm talking about: Chronically lonely incels are arguably the most shunned group of people in society.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, cares about them. A good portion of people on the contrary despise them.

Feminists, "progressives", the extreme leftists, don't care about them, and on the contrary frequently attack them (with accusations like that they think they "deserve sex" for being "nice guys", even when that's not their mentality at all). Liberals don't care about them. Conservatives don't care about them. Men's rights activists in general don't care about them. Right-wingers don't care about them. Middle-of-the-road centrist classical liberals don't care about them. Men don't care about them, women don't care about them, gays don't care about them. The media doesn't care about them.

They get no sympathy from anybody.

Even medical professionals, for the most part, don't care about them, even though prolonged chronic loneliness can be a serious condition. As Wikipedia puts it:

"Chronic loneliness can be a serious, life-threatening health condition. It has been found to be associated with an increased risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease. Loneliness shows an increased incidence of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity."

When a chronically lonely incel commits suicide, pretty much nobody cares. It's just a statistic.

When a chronically lonely incel snaps, perhaps due to an existing mental condition, or simply because people just get a sudden psychological condition, and for example goes on a killing spree, this is used by society at large to attack and shun incels with even more fervor. Ironically, rather than prevent such things from happening in the future, society just makes it worse by shunning these people even more, and driving them even more to suicide and atrocities.

And the thing is, for the most part these people have done nothing wrong. Their only "crime" is being lonely, and having no romantic relationships. For this "crime" they get laughed at, they get ridiculed, they are the butt of jokes, and sometimes they even get viciously attacked with all kinds of accusations.

I don't think there is any other group of people that's more universally dismissed, ridiculed and hated. Think of any other group of people that's oppressed, and there will be a good portion of society that sympathizes with them and defends them, and tries to help them. But nobody cares about chronically lonely incels.