Men are... this is terrifying.https://www.vox.com/world/2018/4/25/17277496/incel-toronto-attack-alek-minassian …
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This is not an organized militant group but rather an ideal developed by the so-called “incel” movement, an online community of men united by their inability to convince women to have sex with them. (“Incel” stands for “involuntarily celibate.”)
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Some self-identified incels, have developed an elaborate sociopolitical explanation for their sexual failures, one that centers on the idea that women are shallow, vicious, and only attracted to hyper-muscular men.
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A small radical fringe believes that violence, especially against women, is an appropriate response — that an “Incel Rebellion” or “Beta [Male] Uprising” will eventually overturn the sexual status quo.
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“Misogyny isn’t new, and ideological misogyny isn’t new. Having a distinct movement that is primarily defined by misogyny is [fairly] novel.”
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The incel community is not monolithic. Many of them are simply sad and lonely men, suffering from extreme social anxiety or deep depression.
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Incels post obsessively about so-called “Chads,” meaning sexually successful and attractive men, and “Stacys,” attractive, promiscuous women who sleep with the Chads. Both are positioned as unattainable.
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“I have sluts for managers,” one poster on the http://incel.me forum wrote. “Flat bitch with no ass and loud ugly black landwhale somehow with no ass either ... both brag about all the dick they suck.”
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“I do not blame Alek Minassian for what he did,” another poster on http://incels.me writes. “I blame society for treating low status men like garbage. There will always be more rampages because of the way society treats us.”
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One incel's post about the Toronto murders.pic.twitter.com/aBzfMiNRfG
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The internet is a dangerous place.
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