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In 2023, the author Tao Beloney wrote an essay-format article about the Wiki for the e-magazine ''Pharos'', administered by Vassar College, an [[wordcel|American liberal arts college]]. ''Pharos'' describes itself as being dedicated to countering "appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups".<ref>https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/2023/02/27/timeless-misogyny-incel-wiki-tertullian-ovid/</ref> The ''Pharos'' article focuses on the [[Timeless quotes on women|"Timeless quotes on women"]] Wiki page. The thesis of the article is that the "Timeless Quotes" page attempts to "project inceldom back into history" via "inventing an entire academic discipline of 'incelology' to support [the Wiki's] cause" (presumably in reference to the "incelology" Wiki category). In the essay, Beloney asserts that the Wiki selectively misquotes Classical texts in pursuit of this purported misogynist agenda, but concedes that the insights of many writers and thinkers of the Classical world | In 2023, the author Tao Beloney wrote an essay-format article about the Wiki for the e-magazine ''Pharos'', administered by Vassar College, an [[wordcel|American liberal arts college]]. ''Pharos'' describes itself as being dedicated to countering "appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups".<ref>https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/2023/02/27/timeless-misogyny-incel-wiki-tertullian-ovid/</ref> The ''Pharos'' article focuses on the [[Timeless quotes on women|"Timeless quotes on women"]] Wiki page. The thesis of the article is that the "Timeless Quotes" page attempts to "project inceldom back into history" via "inventing an entire academic discipline of 'incelology' to support [the Wiki's] cause" (presumably in reference to the "incelology" Wiki category). In the essay, Beloney asserts that the Wiki selectively misquotes Classical texts in pursuit of this purported misogynist agenda, but concedes that the insights of many writers and thinkers of the Classical world reveal, in the modern vernacular, a 'problematic' view of women. Presumably, these reactionary attitudes of the ancients create a need for interpretations of the works of such thinkers to be critically curated by institutionally approved academics like the author. | ||
The author further criticizes the page for focusing on Classical figures who are "overwhelmingly white, European, and male", which is humorous in light of the fact that the entire discipline of Classics focuses predominately on the cultural contributions of such individuals (in the modern view), creating a natural tension that seems to underlie much of the editorial agenda of the Magazine. The article further labels the inclusion of the quotations of thinkers who do not fit into these identity categories as a "token effort to claim that incel ideology is cross-cultural, transhistorical, not specifically masculine, and therefore true". The article repeatedly attempts to pigeonhole incels in a particular ideological category, ascribing an unitary standpoint and sociopolitical agenda to the Wiki that the Beloney appears to believe is shared by all incels. The emphasis on this thread of argumentation reveals the author is seemingly ignorant of the fact that the webpage in question was created by fewer than a handful of users who ascribe to very heterogenous political and social views, and further, that self-identified incels tend not to agree much on such issues even on the more explicitly politicized incel platforms. | The author further criticizes the page for focusing on Classical figures who are "overwhelmingly white, European, and male", which is humorous in light of the fact that the entire discipline of Classics focuses predominately on the cultural contributions of such individuals (in the modern view), creating a natural tension that seems to underlie much of the editorial agenda of the Magazine. The article further labels the inclusion of the quotations of thinkers who do not fit into these identity categories as a "token effort to claim that incel ideology is cross-cultural, transhistorical, not specifically masculine, and therefore true". The article repeatedly attempts to pigeonhole incels in a particular ideological category, ascribing an unitary standpoint and sociopolitical agenda to the Wiki that the Beloney appears to believe is shared by all incels. The emphasis on this thread of argumentation reveals the author is seemingly ignorant of the fact that the webpage in question was created by fewer than a handful of users who ascribe to very heterogenous political and social views, and further, that self-identified incels tend not to agree much on such issues even on the more explicitly politicized incel platforms. | ||