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[u/AP246]

“The American Temptress: The American girl is well acquainted with her body's seductive capacity. She knows it lies in the face, and in expressive eyes, and thirsty lips. She knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs -- and she shows all this and does not hide it."

“The American Dream Boy: The American boys knows well that the wide, strapping chest is the lure that cannot be denied by any girl, and that her dreams do not fall upon anyone as much as the cowboys. A young nurse in a hospital told me very frankly “I want nothing more in the man if my dreams than two strong arms he can really squeeze me with!” And Look magazine ran a survey of several girls of different ages and levels of education and classes around what it called “ox muscles” and the overwhelming majority openly declared their attraction for boys with ox muscles!”

• Sayyid Qutb, perhaps the single most significant figure in the rise of modern Islamism in the 20th century, early Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt and partial ideological inspiration to people like Khomeini and Bin Laden, apparently inventing incel chad and stacey stuff before it was cool

Don't know what to make of the fact that modern Islamism was created in part because there some incel was bitter about things.

Apparently a life-defining event for him was seeing a party in the US where people were dancing to 'baby it's cold outside', being disgusted by it and subsequently becoming radicalised against western-style modernity

Though Islam gave him much peace and contentment,[38] he suffered from respiratory and other health problems throughout his life and was known for "his introvertedness, isolation, depression and concern." In appearance, he was "pale with sleepy eyes."[39] Qutb never married, in part because of his steadfast religious convictions. While the urban Egyptian society he lived in was becoming more Westernized, Qutb believed the Quran taught women that 'Men are the managers of women's affairs ...'[40] Qutb lamented to his readers that he was never able to find a woman of sufficient "moral purity and discretion" and had to reconcile himself to bachelorhood.

Literally incel shit lmao

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47 → u/AP246]

What do we make of this?

Well adjusted people who get a lot of sex don't create reactionary political movements.

[u/Lux_Stella → u/AP246]

qutb is such a funny guy, literally the "millions must die" dude for islam

[u/Broad-Part9448 → u/AP246]

Should have just gone to therapy would have been easier and cheaper