Incel is not a term I’d heard before this week, so I understand the temptation to treat it as something new. Misogyny, men feeling entitled to women, and violence against women are not new though. If we called coffee “ground up bean water” it wouldn’t taste different
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Replying to @AndrewTumilty @KikkiPlanet
This is very much different, it’s almost a militant and cult-like following. I understand your point but absolutely not the same. Incel communities are absolutely an enclave from systemic misogyny.
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This is an important distinction. Incel is related to misogyny the same way that the KKK is to racism. The level of engagement with the belief system and the commitment to actualize the related ideology is many degrees higher in the incel community than merely a prejudice.
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