A lot of people make the argument that "pure love" happens in your teens because you're less jaded from being an adult, but that shit is so the opposite to me, I was way more mean and jaded as a teen. Weird how that works, people view that stuff differently. But being incel is just finding any reason to hate yourself, and why it's mainly "someone else's" fault as a way to cope mentally. It's why I said I knew deep down I didn't hate women but I just couldn't deal with the fact I could control some aspects of my life.
I was able to maintain a type of innocence with myself, and the outcome being maintaining my beliefs at the expense of logic, while being able to blame an external source. I got to maintain my comfort zone and I could blame people other than me. But it only really worked in a fantasy world, and every time I applied it to anything in the real world it was just humiliating and violating (both to me and some of the people around me).
I "liked" the concept of me being screwed over by a source other than myself, because it meant "my personality wasn't flawed, it could've been perfect and I would've still ended up in that way", which was not the full truth.
Now, unfortunately, I'm actually ugly, unlike a majority of the people on here. So I do think beauty/appearance plays a role in a lot of my opportunities and life, but I do think some people are willing to look past it after a while, like my wife did. Which is what I try to tell the young boys on these sites that looks are important but being a good person is also important, as "bluepilled" as that is to say.