EPISODE 136 | Incel-ation
Some say there’s a crisis of masculinity, or maybe it’s just that there’s still a lot of misogyny in our culture. Whatever the causes, one thing is clear – there are some young men out there who have difficulty interacting with women while also buying into the narrative that sex and female attention is somehow their right. And every once in a while, one of these guys goes postal, and violence is the result.
This is the sad and sometimes scary world of incels.
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SECTIONS
- 02:22 - The 2014 Isla Vista attacks
- 07:22 - Incels make the front page, #NotAllMen, #YesAllWomen, Minassian
- 11:06 - Incel started as an online space for everyone, toxic masculinity took it over
- 16:14 - An Incel lexicon: Alphas, Betas and Omegas; Chads, Stacys, Beckys, PUA hate, Lookism, many types of -cels, rating systems, Chadfishing
- 28:35 - Bluepill, cucks, redpill, soyboys, gymaxxing, blackpill, pinkpill, JBpill, hERoes, suicidal ideation, fakecels, more -pills
- 39:34 - Sexual violence, femoids, AWALT, what to call all this, more attacks, pathological interpersonal victimhood, NEET, NoFap builds character, online bragging
- 50:58 - The media doesn't understand the incel world, can it be "cured"?
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
- Incels (Involuntary celibates) at the ADL
- Incels on ISD Explainers
- Our Incel Problem on Vox
- Incels: The Worrying Rise of an Online Subculture on Safer Schools
- Elliot Rodger’s Online Life Provides a Glimpse at a Hateful Group of “Anti-Pick-up Artists” on Vice
- IncelWiki
- Incelsite
- How ‘Incel’ Got Hijacked on Politico
- The woman who founded the 'incel' movement on BBC
- What Happens to Men Who Can't Have Sex in Elle
- The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a global misogynistic community - 2021 paper by Kelly Caroline Gothard
- Incels: A Guide to Symbols and Terminology
- Incels: A short guide for those teaching Year 10 and above
- 'Looksmaxxing': This incel uses a hammer to make his face 'more attractive' | The Secret World of Incels on CBC
- Incel hits himself in face with hammer because he thinks it will improve looks
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