Forum:Thank you, RationalWiki

Warning: The following includes dangerous levels of self-pity and fishing for sympathy.

Thank you RationtalWiki.

Over the past few hours I have been feeling pretty (read: extremely) down for a variety of reasons, and as an escape I have been browsing this wiki to numb the pain. In particular I am what some call an Incel (I am an early thirties white heterosexual male) and I was looking for some articles that would somehow make me feel better about my predicament. Sadly I did not find any, only what I saw as more stigma against people like me. In the midst of this I remembered that some time ago I stumbled upon a Wikipedia article about love shyness and so I decided to see what RationalWiki had to say about that. In my search I came upon the article about love-shy.com (a website I have not heard about before today), saw the quotes in that article, and thought to myself, "Yeah, if the typical love shy male holds even 1% of the misogyny contained in those quotes we deserve all the hate that is leveled against us." Being in a bad place emotionally my thoughts turned darker and I typed in "suicide" in the search box (1). Even though I "knew" that RationalWiki was a "hive of the worst type of feminazi, SJW, anti-gamer gate (2) rhetoric" [sic], the resultant article with it's red header made me feel so much better. I instinctively sought out what your evil twin equally valid wiki but from a different point of view (3) Conservapeida had to say about the topic only to be greeted with pronouncement that suicide was a sin, yadda yadda yadda.

So thank you RationalWiki for this. I wasn't really suicidal but that header truly brought a tear to my eye - no exaggeration.

(1) In no way, shape or form do I wish to imply that what I read on this wiki drove me to suicidal thoughts - those thoughts have been with me for a very long time.

(2) As a gamer I feel some connection with the GG crowd, but I know what they really are.

(3) See all those strikethroughs? I'm with it, I'm hip - *does a lame Makarena while going "ducka, ducka, ducka"*
 * Have you tried dating single moms? CorruptUser (talk) 14:53, 28 January 2016 (UTC)