Gay incel
The rise of ‘incels’
What happens when lonely men, embittered by a sense of failure in the sexual marketplace, find each other and form communities on the internet? The result can be deadly.
A new paper by Harvard psychology postdoc Miriam Lindner explores the rise of male “incels,” short for involuntary celibates, and their susceptibility to extremist ideologies and behaviors. Linder argues that despite a string of mass shootings and violent attacks by men espousing incel ideologies in recent years there has been a relative lack of research into the drivers behind the phenomenon.
Lindner uses an evolutionary psychology framework to understand the behavior of these men amid the accelerating social and economic shifts in gender roles and the ways the internet makes possible an “ecology where incel beliefs can thrive and build violence attractive.”
Essentially, Lindner finds these behaviors are rooted in those that proved to be most evolutionarily advantageous and so more likely to be passed along to a next generation. Our ancestors have, according to scholars, passed down a
“Degenerate” Queers and “Chadsexual” Sapphics: Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric in the Incelosphere
Content warning: This understanding contains references to homophobic and transphobic slurs and aggression against women.
Introduction
At show, our understandings of misogynist inceldom centre around cisheterosexual men and women, failing to account for how queer and non-binary identities are targeted and delegitimised through users’ male supremacist rhetoric. The most extensive operate engaging with constructions of queerness in the misogynist incelosphere are from Kelly and Aunspach () and Vallerga (), whose analyses centre on compulsory (hetero)sexuality and the disparaging of lesbians within the main misogynist forum, respectively. This Insight explores the queer roots of contemporary misogynist inceldom, juxtaposing this with the community’s staunch stance against lgbtq+ identities. Drawing on results from my doctoral work tracing identity-based harm across three forums for self-identified incels, this Insight explores how LGBTQ+ identities are constructed as degenerate, deviant, and dupli
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The five core elements of incel ideology
Posted on December 3
Content warning: This blog discusses the views of men who abhor women which can be offensive, upsetting, and rage inducing.
As boys scroll through their social media feeds, algorithms ensure they reach across content promoting a dangerous world view. The manosphere is a network of websites, forums, and blogs promoting extreme misogyny. Incels are an online sub-group of the manosphere known for blaming women for their own lack of sexual and amorous relationships, or ‘involuntary celibatism’. Incels have been linked to over 50 vicious attacks in the last decade.
Understanding how this society weaponises everyday misogyny to radicalise boys has turn into crucial for parents, educators, and anyone concerned about young people’s welfare to understand.
Using O’Malley et al. ( NP) we’ve broken down their ideology so you can get a better handle on who incels are and the messages that social media algorithms push to boys and young men.
The Foundation: Men’s Victimhood and Oppres Investigating the insidious rise of the gay incel
On the evening of May 23, , year-old California native Elliot Rodger stabbed three men to death in his apartment. He then drove to a local sorority house, shot three women, continued to a local deli and shot a man to death there, too. By way of explanation, he posted a chilling, seven-minute video detailing the specifics of his murder rampage, portraying it as ‘retribution’.
His rampage cast an international spotlight on incels – a portmanteau of ‘involuntarily celibate’, coined by a blogger known only as Alana back in In a rare interview, she described originating the term as a description of a “lonely community” that couldn’t discover love.
This is no longer the case – and she’s spoken about her fury at the word being hijacked. Now, it’s used mostly to explain men like Rodger, and over the last two decades, it’s been applied to a series of prolific ‘incel forums’, whose posts have gradually change into more violent and misogynistic. Some are on 4chan and Reddit, but some are standalone – and one of the most trendy currently has
Investigating the insidious rise of the gay incel
On the evening of May 23, , year-old California native Elliot Rodger stabbed three men to death in his apartment. He then drove to a local sorority house, shot three women, continued to a local deli and shot a man to death there, too. By way of explanation, he posted a chilling, seven-minute video detailing the specifics of his murder rampage, portraying it as ‘retribution’.
His rampage cast an international spotlight on incels – a portmanteau of ‘involuntarily celibate’, coined by a blogger known only as Alana back in In a rare interview, she described originating the term as a description of a “lonely community” that couldn’t discover love.
This is no longer the case – and she’s spoken about her fury at the word being hijacked. Now, it’s used mostly to explain men like Rodger, and over the last two decades, it’s been applied to a series of prolific ‘incel forums’, whose posts have gradually change into more violent and misogynistic. Some are on 4chan and Reddit, but some are standalone – and one of the most trendy currently has