It's every bit as legally fictional as the self-marriage. As far as I've been able to tell, a self-marriage ceremony carries no legal recognition or effect anywhere.
That's another issue I'd like to explore after we've had time to discuss why people marry themselves and whether it represents something somehow parallel with incels.
I think these (incel/sologamy) are two sides of the same coin, broadly speaking, performative sour grapes that on average are coloured by the slight average trait differences between women compared with men.
In both cases the world and potential partners do not respond to pre-set non-realistic expectations, aka 'reality sucks', especially for individuals who won't compromise.
On some level this is a crushing existential blow, ‘rejected as unfit to breed at all’, a rejection of self - it’s unpalatable to think in this way, but two million years of evolution has rendered the drive to reproduce part of our natures.
Good old
self-identity will then leap to the rescue, rationalising that 'it's them', (insert all the rubbish reasons both sexes use to reject the other
in toto), which manifest as "I didn't want to anyway", not unlike the behaviour of a spoiled child implacably denied their demands (even if they lie on the supermarket floor screaming and kicking).
So 'incel' and 'sologamy'. I didn’t want to anyway. Wah.
This sounds a little acerbic, but I'm desperate sad for those brought up on unrealistic expectations of life, work and relationships, then colliding with the reality of life. What a crappy thing to do to children.
For example, the corrosive notion that anyone can be whatever they want. Patently nonsense, but if said enough to impressionable children, the crushing blow of reality (you’re not smart enough to be a doctor, or don’t work hard enough to achieve success) tends to result in (1) growing up and knuckling down or (2) leaping onto the ‘special’ bandwagon and immediate self diagnosing with ‘something’ to validate the lack of expected/entitled success and possibly/extremely (3) validation of self-identity by erasing existential threats with violence and intimidation.