I don’t have any amazing hot takes on the fact that the man responsible for yesterday’s tragedy in Toronto is allegedly a self-identified incel Elliot Rodger superfan. I’m mostly just sad and tired.
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Feminists have been writing about the online radicalization of misogynists for years. A lot of people have dismissed and ridiculed what we’ve said. But make no mistake: misogyny kills, both on a grand scale like this and on a much smaller, more personal scale.
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Unsurprisingly, the people clamouring yesterday to tailor this attack to fit their islamiphobic agenda are either silent today or else calling the information coming out a “government conspiracy”
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Imagine if people cared as much about gender-based violence as they cared about propping up their own racist ideologies
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I’m already seeing the narrative shift to saying Alek Minassian was “mentally unstable.” But the systematic online misogynistic indoctrination of young men has nothing to do with mental illness & everything to do with a culture that doesn’t view women as people.
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This is an important thread on the subject of incels, toxic masculinity and Toronto:https://twitter.com/arshymann/status/988818797086871558 …
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Arshy MannVerified account @ArshyMannFor the past little while, I've been working on a piece about Toronto's relationship to the alt-right, especially the "manosphere." Unfortunately that research has become relevant. I'm going to share as much as I can here for people who may not be familiar with these movements.Show this thread3 replies 136 retweets 331 likesShow this thread -
I’ve said this in reply to someone in this thread, but I’m going to put it here as well: mental illness is not the cause of the incel ideology. Loneliness, entitlement and misogyny are not mental illnesses.
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Incel type tragic characters can be found at least back to the Helenistic Greeks. Whatever it is we do to boys to train toxic masculinity into them (well us, because I've got my share), we're well practiced at it and we've recognized it's existence on some level for a long time.
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