Time to wade into the genderslop media literacy discourse and attempt an honest evaluation of what's happening and why.
We've all seen this meme, or versions of it, going around. It's generating the usual mindkills and blowback as young men post this image with a brutal tagline such as below, and then women and left wingers snap back with "she's the victim, you incel!"
This is true, but it's masking what's actually happening.
The key to understanding the split in "media literacy" is that there are two movies within this (pretty darn good for 2026) horror film.
Spoilers ahead.
The first is the movie as written - it's plot and characters are a straightforward "be careful what you wish for" possession story, where a bunch of 24 year old teenagers make bad decisions from immaturity, leading to compounding tragedies. The male lead, a weak but initially sympathetic figure, blows his chance with the "girl of his dreams" and wishes that she loved him. Being unaware he is in a horror movie, he phrases the wish incorrectly, she gets possessed by a Being That Loves Him, and things get much worse. His sympathy wears off as he continually seeks to "make things work" with the demon wearing his new girlfriend's skin, even as she occasionally breaks through and begs for death. After everything gets much, much worse, he tries to end the possession, things fail, and nearly everyone dies.
So, the plot is about a weak man trying to get "the best outcome" from a situation that should not exist, the woman is a complete victim, and the whole plot is driven by the hidden toxicity beneath an on-the-surface wholesome friend group.
This is an acceptable movie to make in 202X filmmaking.
However - and this is a large "however" - the movie which occurs in the moment to moment of the film - the TEXTURE of the thing - tells a completely different story.
In any given viral scene, what is being shown is familiar to basically any man in the modern dating market: a BPD woman having an absolute crashout. As the dating market declines and modern social programming (feminism) results in ever increasing dysfunction, the presence of nuclear-tier BPD behavior has scaled to match.
Speak to almost any Zoomer or Young Millennial and you'll find horror stories about completely normal dinner dates turning into screaming fights because he tipped the waitress too much or too little, or a trashed apartment because he didn't answer a text while at work. For a sensitive young man, the feminine-compliance coding of society combined with the affection-hooks of an early BPD relationship can be life-ruining. All his fantasies become real, a girl beyond his dreams loves him, she's been horribly mistreated by the world - she has all manner of horror stories of evil exes! - and he gets to be the hero. He gets reeled in, the relationship escalates into intense physicality... and the other shoe drops and she's throwing forks at his head while calling him a sexual predator who's also sexually inadequate. Unable to navigate the insanity and not the kind of man to fight, he retreats, and she love bombs him again, and it becomes even more ecstatically physical.
If he's really unfortunate, he comes away with a kid that might be his, child support payments, life ruining charges, a venereal disease, she tells everyone he's an evil ex, and she still calls him twice a year because she's sorry, she misses him, and wants to hook up.
Now, not all end this badly, and most sensitive young men have the sense to eject before it gets that bad. But, again, get an honest Zoomer talking and the responses are, "I dated her", "My best mate dated her", or "God, I'd love that" (because modern dating is broken and kids are dumb).
The texture of the movie, in any given moment-turned-meme, is about the paralysis of a BPD relationship and a sexually frustrated, insecure young man trying to "figure out the best way" to save something he should really just quit.
But that movie isn't acceptable in 202X, so it gets wrapped within "incel gets woman possessed and suffers for it".
As Claude might say, "both movies are true and real, and the difference between them does the work".
The "work" here is that those who watch the movie as presented have an accurate and broadly (vulgar) feminist understanding of the media (literacy), while those that experience the movie, or more, it's Truthy memes, are staring into the abyss of "the girl you loved wasn't real, she was a simulation run by a demon, and you should quit this nonsense before she ruins your life".
Those positions, which are really experiences, are incompatible.
So enjoy the memes and the slop that follows.
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