The online incel (“involuntary celibate”) subculture is mostly known for its extreme rhetoric, primarily against women, sometimes erupting into violence. But a growing number of self-identified incels ...
In the song, "Eleanor Rigby," The Beatles sing, "All the lonely people / Where do they all come from?" which is a key question when talking about incels, i.e., the involuntarily celibate. The Creation ...
Confusing marginality with insight leaves movements vulnerable to reactionary mimicry. A renewed engagement with Karl Marx’s structural account of exploitation can give feminism a path out of ...
In 2018, 25-year-old Canadian Alex Minassian carried out a deadly rampage that left 10 people dead and injured 16 others. Shortly before carrying out the attack, he posted a message on social media ...
Some men in the "incel" (involuntary celibate) community want the state to intervene in their dating lives. These sexually frustrated men believe that society is biased against them, so they should be ...
‘I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t think at least half the group was crazy,’ Harta* tells me from his home in the US. I can’t see him – like other men in my study into the world of incels, he’s ...