Someone in the national media needs to get a toxic masculinity culture explainer up, and quickly, to help decipher this for people who have no idea what an "incel" is or forgot about Elliot Rodger. https://twitter.com/mattbraga/status/988785784789577729 …
If you want to see some of the truly repulsive thinking coming out of the "incel" community, they're hailing the Toronto driver as a hero:https://dpo.st/2Fd0Zpi
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It's not as though the vile misogyny of Rodger or inherent in the MRA/G*mergate/Red pill continuum has been underreported, but I think it's one of the most dangerous ideologies that the general public is mostly unaware of.
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In essence, there are hundreds (thousands?) of young men who are so angry that they can't get girlfriends that they plan (and sometimes execute) horrific acts of violence on innocent bystanders. I wish I was joking.
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If you live on Twitter/Reddit, you've known about this ideology for years. But still, that angle is almost never explored in depth after these crimes and they are categorized as "troubled loners" and quickly forgotten about. We need some sunshine on this and soon.
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Here's a good one to start:https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/989183894179270662 …
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Another, on the radicalization of young men:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/opinion/when-misogynists-become-terrorists.html …
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