Incel-ation

07/05/2025 56 min Episodio 136
Incel-ation

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EPISODE 136 | Incel-ation
Some say there’s a crisis of masculinity, or maybe it’s just that there’s still a lot of misogyny in our culture. Whatever the causes, one thing is clear – there are some young men out there who have difficulty interacting with women while also buying into the narrative that sex and female attention is somehow their right. And every once in a while, one of these guys goes postal, and violence is the result.
This is the sad and sometimes scary world of incels.
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SECTIONS

02:22 - The 2014 Isla Vista attacks
07:22 - Incels make the front page, #NotAllMen, #YesAllWomen, Minassian
11:06 - Incel started as an online space for everyone, toxic masculinity took it over
16:14 - An Incel lexicon: Alphas, Betas and Omegas; Chads, Stacys, Beckys, PUA hate, Lookism, many types of -cels, rating systems, Chadfishing
28:35 - Bluepill, cucks, redpill, soyboys, gymaxxing, blackpill, pinkpill, JBpill, hERoes, suicidal ideation, fakecels, more -pills
39:34 - Sexual violence, femoids, AWALT, what to call all this, more attacks, pathological interpersonal victimhood, NEET, NoFap builds character, online bragging
50:58 - The media doesn't understand the incel world, can it be "cured"?


Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

Incels (Involuntary celibates) at the ADL
Incels on ISD Explainers
Our Incel Problem on Vox
Incels: The Worrying Rise of an Online Subculture on Safer Schools
Elliot Rodger’s Online Life Provides a Glimpse at a Hateful Group of “Anti-Pick-up Artists” on Vice
IncelWiki
Incelsite
How ‘Incel’ Got Hijacked on Politico
The woman who founded the 'incel' movement on BBC
What Happens to Men Who Can't Have Sex in Elle
The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a global
misogynistic community - 2021 paper by Kelly Caroline Gothard 
Incels: A Guide to Symbols and Terminology
Incels: A short guide for those teaching Year 10 and above
'Looksmaxxing': This incel uses a hammer to make his face 'more attractive' | The Secret World of Incels on CBC
Incel hits himself in face with hammer because he thinks it will improve looks
The Psychological Profile of INCELS by William Costello
Responding to the incel ideology on The Safeguarding Network
Yes, the incel community has a sexism problem, but we can do something about it on The Conversation
How do you deradicalise an incel? in Wired
CMV: The most effective way to fight against incel ideology Reddit post
How Do I Stop Being An Incel? on Paging Dr. NerdLove
Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Extremist Intentions: The Contingent Effects of Self-efficacy, Self-control and Law-related Morality - paper by Bettina Rottweiler and Paul Gill

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