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Incel

April 10, 2024

For other uses, see Incel (disambiguation).

Incel (/ˈɪnsɛl/ IN-sel; a portmanteau of "involuntary celibate"[1]) is a term closely associated with an online subculture of people (mostly white,[2] male, and heterosexual[3]) who define themselves as unable to get a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one.[4][5][6] Originally coined as "invcel" around 1997 by a queer Canadian female student known as Alana, the spelling had shifted to "incel" by 1999,[7][8] and the term later rose to prominence in the 2010s, following the influence of Elliot Rodger.[9]

The subculture is often characterized by deep resentment, hatred, hostility, sexual objectification, misogyny, misanthropy, self-pity and self-loathing, racism, a sense of entitlement to sex, blaming of women and the sexually successful for their situation (which is often seen as predetermined due to biological determinism, evolutionary genetics or a rigged game), a sense of futility and nihilism, rape culture, and the endorsement of sexual and nonsexual violence against women and sexually active people.[10][25] Incel communities have been increasingly criticized by scholars, government officials, and others for their misogyny, the endorsement and encouragement of violence, and extremism.[26] Over time the subculture has become associated with extremism and terrorism, and since 2014 there have been multiple mass killings mostly in North America perpetrated by self-identified incels, as well as other instances of violence or attempted violence.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described the subculture as "part of the online male supremacist ecosystem" that is included in their list of hate groups.[27][28] The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism states that "the incel community shares a misogynistic ideology of women as being genetically inferior to men, driven by their sexual desire to reproduce with genetically superior males thereby excluding unattractive men such as themselves" which "exhibits all of the hallmarks of an extremist ideology", and that it is the combination of a wish for a mythical past where all men were entitled to sex from subordinated women, a sense of predestined personal failure, and nihilism, which makes the worldview dangerous.[29][21] Estimates of the overall size of the subculture vary greatly, ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands of individuals.[30][31]

History

The first website to use the term "incel" was "Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project", founded in 1997 by a Canadian university student known only by her first name, Alana, to discuss her sexual inactivity with others;[32][8] however, some media has incorrectly dated it to 1993, the date of a personal interaction that later inspired her to design the page.[32] The site was used by people of all genders and sexual orientations to share their thoughts and experiences.[32][12] During 1997, she started a mailing list on the topic that used the abbreviation INVCEL, later shortened to "incel", for "anybody of any gender who was lonely, had never had sex or who hadn't had a relationship in a long time".[33] During her college years and after, Alana realized she was bisexual and became more comfortable with her identity.[34] She stopped participating in her online project around 2000 and gave the site to a stranger.[32][35][36] In 2018, Alana said of her project: "It definitely wasn't a bunch of guys blaming women for their problems. That's a pretty sad version of this phenomenon that's happening today. Things have changed in the last 20 years".[33] When she read about the 2014 Isla Vista killings, and that parts of the incel subculture glorified the perpetrator, she wrote: "Like a scientist who invented something that ended up being a weapon of war, I can't uninvent this word, nor restrict it to the nicer people who need it".[37][34] She expressed regret at the change in usage from her original intent of creating an "inclusive community" for people of all genders who were sexually deprived due to social awkwardness, marginalization, or mental illness.[30]

The message board love-shy.com was founded in 2003 as a place for people who felt perpetually rejected or were extremely shy with potential partners to discuss their situations.[38][39] It was less strictly moderated than its counterpart, IncelSupport, which was also founded in the 2000s. While IncelSupport welcomed men and women and banned misogynistic posts, love-shy.com's userbase was overwhelmingly male. Over the next decade, the membership of love-shy.com and online fringe right-wing communities like 4chan increasingly overlapped.[35] In the 2000s, incel communities became more extremist as they adopted behaviors common on forums like 4chan and Reddit, where extremist posts were encouraged as a way to achieve visibility.[40] According to Bruce Hoffman and colleagues writing in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, as "edgy" and extremist statements became more prevalent in incel communities, so too did extremist trolling and "shitposting".[40]

The r/incels subreddit, a forum on the website Reddit, later became a particularly active incel community. It was known as a place where men blamed women for their inceldom, sometimes advocated for rape or other forms of violence, and were misogynistic and often racist.[41][42] On November 7, 2017, Reddit banned the r/incels subreddit following a new policy that prohibited "content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people" adopted earlier in October 2017.[43][42] At the time of the ban, the community had around 40,000 members.[42] The incel community continued to inhabit Reddit in other subreddits, such as on the subreddit r/braincels. Although the tone of the subreddit was similar to r/incels, moderators of the r/braincels forum said that they did not endorse, support, or glorify violence or violent people, a distinction they made from the subject matter of its predecessor that resulted in its being banned from Reddit.[44] The r/braincels subreddit was banned later, however, on September 30, 2019, after Reddit again broadened its banning policy.[11][45] Incel communities began to migrate away from shared platforms and instead use their own closed forums dedicated specifically to the subject.[13][46]

The subculture came to wider public notice throughout the 2010s with the banning of r/incels and when a series of mass murders were committed by men who either identified as members of the subculture or shared similar ideologies.[39][47] Increased interest in incel communities has been attributed to feelings of "aggrieved entitlement" among some men who feel they are being denied rights they deserve and blame women for their lack of sex.[48]

Since around 2019, some self-identified incels have attempted to redefine their views to appear more mainstream by writing blog posts and articles on subject-specific wikis and forums rejecting the more open expressions of misogyny within other segments of the subculture, highlighting the heterogeneity of incel communities, and reframing incels not as an online subculture but as those experiencing a life circumstance that applies even to individuals who are not members of the subculture.[49][50][51][52] M. Kelly wrote for the Political Research Associates think tank in 2021 that these attempts to redefine themselves contradicted the communities' self-identifications and moderation strategies, where members regularly challenge other users' "legitimacy" as incels, but have accepted as members individuals with sexual experience who nonetheless shared similar political ideologies.[49]

Extremism

Incel communities became more extremist and focused on violence from the late 2010s.[53][54][18] This has been attributed to factors including influences from overlapping online hate groups and the rise of the alt-right and white supremacist groups.[5][55][56][53] The misogynistic and violent rhetoric of some members of these communities has led to numerous bans from websites and web hosts.[19][41][57][58] Incel communities continue to exist on more lenient platforms including 4chan, 8chan, and Gab, as well as on web forums created specifically for the topic.[38][59][40] More extremist self-identified incels have increasingly migrated to obscure locations including gaming chat services and the dark web to avoid site shutdowns and the self-censorship that has developed among some incel communities as an effort to avoid drawing scrutiny from law enforcement or website service providers.[40]

Beginning in 2018 and into the 2020s, the incel ideology has been described by North American governments and researchers as a terrorism threat, and law enforcement have issued warnings about the subculture.[40][60][61] In May 2019, an American man was sentenced to up to five years in prison for attempting to make terrorist threats, posting on social media, "I'm planning on shooting up a public place ... killing as many girls as I see".[62] In September 2019, the U.S. Army warned soldiers about the possibility of violence at movie theaters showing the Joker film, after "disturbing and very specific chatter" was found in conversations among self-identified incels on the dark web.[40] A January 2020 report by the Texas Department of Public Safety warned that the incel movement was an "emerging domestic terrorism threat" that "could soon match, or potentially eclipse, the level of lethalness demonstrated by other domestic terrorism types".[63][13][64] A 2020 paper published by Bruce Hoffman and colleagues in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism concluded that "the violent manifestations of the ideology pose a new terrorism threat, which should not be dismissed or ignored by domestic law enforcement agencies".[40] John Horgan, a psychology professor at Georgia State University who in 2019 received a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to study the incel subculture, explained why the incel ideology equates to terrorism: "the fact that incels are aspiring to change things up in a bigger, broader ideological sense, that's, for me, what make it a classic example of terrorism. That's not saying all incels are terrorists. But violent incel activity is, unquestionably, terrorism in my view".[65] In February 2020, an attack in Toronto that was allegedly motivated by incel ideologies became the first such act of violence to be prosecuted as terrorism, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stated that they consider the incel subculture to be an "Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremist (IMVE)" movement.[66] Jacob Ware publishing in Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses wrote that analysis of incels has been focused within the United States and Canada due to the concentration of incel-motivated attacks in those countries.[67] The United States Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center, in a March 2022 case study titled "Hot Yoga Tallahassee: A Case Study of Misogynistic Extremism", sought to draw attention to "the specific threat posed by misogynist extremism."[68]

Forums

The largest incel forum was founded in 2017 by a previous moderator of the r/incels subreddit. The forum had almost 15,000 members as of October 2022.[13][46] It is composed of public and registered message boards for self-described incels to discuss their personal experiences. Moderators ban women and LGBT individuals from joining, justifying so by stating that the forum is oriented towards straight men.[69][70] Talia Lavin in her book Culture Warlords describes the site's culture as one of "one-upmanship", "barroom boast-off" and shock content.[71] Rolling Stone describes a vindictive site culture, giving an example of an ex-moderator who entered a romantic relationship and was subsequently rejected by site members as a "fake incel".[72] Vox states that the site has a culture of praising mass killers, which is treated lightly by the site's admins.[35]

The site has used several top-level domains since its creation, after being suspended by one over violence and hate speech[73] and denied renewal by another.[74]

The site owners also operate a wiki,[51][52] which has been described by researchers publishing in New Media & Society as cherry picking academic papers to promote misogynistic points.[50]

Connection to suicide forums

See also: Sanctioned Suicide

In September, the UK-based Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) published a report in September 2022 about the largest dedicated incel forum, based on monthly visits, and a network of other sites run by the same two pseudonymous individuals. The Washington Post, New York Times, and the CCDH identified them as Uruguay-based Diego Joaquín Galante and United States-based Lamarcus Small.[75][76][77][78] In December 2021, the New York Times reported that it had identified 45 people, individually, who died in connection to a website called Sanctioned Suicide,[79] and estimated that the true number was likely much higher.[80][79] The Times reporters discovered that Galante and Small created and operated the suicide website, in addition to their several incel forums. The CCDH reported that Galante and Small also maintained forums for online communities dedicated to body image and unemployment.[75][78]

Ideology present in incel communities

Many incel communities are characterized by resentment and hatred, self-pity, racism, misogyny, and misanthropy.[25] Discussions often revolve around the belief that men are entitled to sex; other common topics include idleness, loneliness, unhappiness, suicide, sexual surrogates, and prostitutes, as well as attributes they believe increase one's desirability as a partner such as income or personality.[39][81][15] The incel community has a shared victimhood identity in which individuals fatalistically celebrate their failures and discourage each other from seeking romantic success.[82] Many self-identified incels adopt the "scientific blackpill", a series of social psychology studies that purport to scientifically prove their victimization.[10] Opposition to feminism and women's rights is common, and some posters blame women's liberation for their inability to find a partner.[83] Some believe there was a golden age in which couples married early, were strictly monogamous, and adhered to traditional gender roles. They believe that during this time, looks played less of a role in romantic pairings and men's "entitlement" to sex with women was never denied.[40][84] Those holding this belief often disagree about precisely when this golden age occurred, but they concur that it was gradually destroyed by feminism, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, and technological progress.[84] Racism is generally considered to be common on incel forums,[25] though some researchers have questioned its prevalence. In 2019, Jaki et al. estimated that 3 percent of comments on incel forums contained words from a list of racist words identified by the researchers.[70][85] Antisemitic beliefs are also regularly found on incel forums, with some posters going so far as to blame the rise of feminism on a plot masterminded by Jews to weaken the Western world.[35][40]

Some researchers have questioned linguistic analysis of incel forums as the primary methodology for studying the subculture, recommending that future researchers employ qualitative methods such as one-on-one interviews to obtain a more nuanced view and to avoid results being skewed by the prevalence of shitposting on incel forums.[86]: 736 [87]

In context of related communities

Incel communities are a part of the broader manosphere, a loose collection of misogynist movements that also includes men's rights activists (MRAs), Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), pickup artists (PUAs), and fathers' rights groups.[88][89] Journalists for the New York Times in 2018 wrote that involuntary celibacy is an adaptation of the idea of "male supremacy" and that the communities have evolved into a movement "made up of people—some celibate, some not—who believe that women should be treated as sexual objects with few rights".[90][91] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) also described the subculture as "part of the online male supremacist ecosystem", which they began including in their list of hate groups in 2018.[28] While the incel ideology involves the belief that one is physically inferior to the rest of society, often referring to oneself as "subhuman", researchers have agreed that self-identified incels also espouse supremacist views: either that they are superior to women, or superior to non-incels in general.[84][15][92][93] A 2019 study published in Terrorism and Political Violence found that self-identified incels believe themselves to be the only ones who are "capable of pro-social values and intelligent enough ('high IQ') to see the truth about the social world". The study determined that they followed a pattern that is typical of extremist groups, ascribing highly negative values to out-groups and positive values to in-groups, with the unusual caveat that despite seeing themselves as psychologically superior, they also view themselves negatively in terms of physical appearance.[84]

Incel communities sometimes overlap with communities such as Men Going Their Own Way,[94] men's rights activism, people who believe they are experiencing "true forced loneliness" (TFL),[81] and pickup artistry,[39][95] although at least one incel website has expressed hatred for pickup artistry and accused pickup artists and dating coaches of financially exploiting incels.[95][96][97] Media scholar Debbie Ging writes that incels' discourse around "victimhood and aggrieved entitlement" began on 4chan and has spread into more mainstream groups such as men's rights activists (MRAs) and Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW).[88] Incel communities have also been observed to overlap with far-right groups, with the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right noting that the subculture is "part of a growing trend of radical-right movements" that are distressed by neoliberalism, especially women's empowerment and immigration.[98][40] Hoffman and colleagues, publishing in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, stated that "a particularly worrisome trend is how seamlessly the militant incel community has been integrated into the alt-right tapestry, with common grievances and intermingling membership bringing the two extremisms closer together".[40] Der Spiegel reported in March 2021 on the overlap between the incel community and the Feuerkrieg Division, a group modeled after the Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi terrorist network.[13]

Promotion of violence

 
2014 memorial service at Harder Stadium for the victims of the 2014 Isla Vista killings by self-identified incel Elliot Rodger

Some discussions in incel communities endorse violence against sexually active women and more sexually successful men;[42][99][100] harassment of women,[101] including activities such as catfishing;[101] and suicide.[102] According to the Anti-Defamation League, they form the most violent community within the manosphere.[103] In some incel communities, it is common for posts to glorify violence by self-identified incels such as Elliot Rodger (perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings) and Alek Minassian (perpetrator of the 2018 Toronto van attack),[104][105][106] as well as by those they believe shared their ideology such as Marc Lépine (perpetrator of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre),[101] Seung-Hui Cho (perpetrator of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting),[107] and George Sodini (perpetrator of the 2009 Collier Township shooting).[95] Rodger is the most frequently referenced, often being referred to as their "saint"[105] with memes in which his face has been superimposed onto paintings of Christian icons. Some incels consider him to be the true progenitor of today's online incel communities.[35] The BBC described Rodger in 2020 as "the founding father of the incel ideology".[108]

Some within these communities view violence as the only solution to what they see as societal oppression and abuse against them and speak frequently of incel "uprisings" and "revolts". Others take the more nihilistic view that nothing will change society, even violent acts, and focus their efforts on constructing a scientific justification for this nihilism.[10] Some support the idea of violence as revenge on society, without the hope it will lead to societal change.[84]

However, other researchers have questioned the degree of violence found in incel communities, with some suggesting that "extreme inceldom looks more like suicidality than violence toward others".[82] Some violent posts may be motivated by status seeking behavior by individuals on forums, rather than a desire to promote violence.[86]: 735  A 2021 study found that the overwhelming majority of self-identified incels themselves do not think that incel groups promote violence,[109][86]: 735  and a 2022 study found that most self-identified incels surveyed (79%) rejected violence.[82][110]

Sexual violence

A subgroup of self-identified incels who frequent websites founded by Nathan Larson, who was a perennial political candidate and active participant in incel communities, work deliberately to convince other self-identified incels that they are justified in raping women if they are rejected sexually.[35] Some self-identified incels describe women's sexual rejection of them as "reverse rape", a phenomenon they consider to be equally harmful as rape.[103]

A September 2022 report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate on the largest dedicated incel forum found that users posted about rape once every 29 minutes during their study period and used the word "kill" 1,181 times in one month. 89% of forum users during the study period expressed that they support rape in general. According to the report, some posters on the forum try to normalize the idea of child rape, and more than half the total forum during their study period supported pedophilia.[78] The report also exposed that the incel forum site operators had changed a forum rule in March 2022 to allow for the sexualization of pubescent minors, narrowing an existing rule to outlaw only the sexualization of "pre-pubescent" minors.[78][76]

Justifications for beliefs

Many self-identified incels justify their prejudices using interpretations taken from concepts such as biological determinism and evolutionary psychology.[111][92] Self-identified incels also regularly endorse the ideas of "female hypergamy"; genetic superiority of men over women; the "80/20 rule" (an application of the Pareto principle) which suggests that 80% of women desire the top 20% of most attractive men; and, among non-white men within the subculture, the "just be white" (JBW) theory, which suggests that Caucasians face the fewest obstacles to relationships and sex.[83][112][94] Self-identified incels also believe that people seeking a romantic or sexual partner participate in a cruel, mercenary, and Darwinian sexual selection, wherein incels are genetically unfit and where women hold an advantage for reasons ranging from feminism to the use of cosmetics.[113] Incels may attribute their lack of sexual success to factors such as shyness, sex-segregated work environments, negative body image,[114] penis size,[112] or their physical appearance,[115] and commonly believe that the only thing more important than looks in improving a man's eligibility as a prospective partner is wealth.[116] Some justify their beliefs based on the works of fringe social psychologist Brian Gilmartin and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson.[39][111][91]

"Red pill" and "black pill"

See also: Red pill and blue pill

The "red pill" is an allusion that is common among manosphere communities, as well as some communities outside of the manosphere.[117] It originates from the dilemma in the movie The Matrix where the protagonist must choose whether to remain in a world of illusion (taking the blue pill) or to see the world as it really is (taking the red pill).[40][118] Among communities that use the term, the "red pill" often refers to the core set of beliefs of that community, and people who are "redpilled" or who have "taken the red pill" are those who hold those beliefs. In manosphere communities such as men's rights groups and, according to some researchers, in incel communities as well, "taking the red pill" means seeing a world where feminism has given women too much power over men and male privilege does not exist.[11][118][119][120] The "black pill" is an extension of the red and blue pill analogy. There is some disagreement among researchers and journalists over which beliefs are "red pill" and which are "black pill", and whether the black pill ideology is a distinguishing belief of the incel ideology or if there are self-identified incels who do not subscribe to black pill ideas. Some researchers and journalists use the term "red pill" to refer to the set of beliefs commonly held by men's rights' activists, and the term "black pill" to summarize the incel ideology as a whole.[11][112] Hoffman et al. have said that "'Taking the black pill' is critical to the incel identity, since it means recognizing 'inceldom' as a permanent condition".[40] Aja Romano writing for Vox has said, "what unites all incels is something known as the black pill".[11] Researchers at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) write that there are some incels who believe in the red pill and others who believe in the black pill.[120]

The "black pill" generally refers to a set of beliefs generally only held by incel communities, which include biological determinism, fatalism, and defeatism for unattractive people.[10] These beliefs are supported by continued reference on incel forums to scientific studies in fields such as psychology, sociology, and evolutionary biology.[121][failed verification] Believers are referred to as being "blackpilled".[122] The black pill has been described by Vox correspondent Zack Beauchamp as "a profoundly sexist ideology that ... amounts to a fundamental rejection of women's sexual emancipation, labeling women shallow, cruel creatures who will choose only the most attractive men if given the choice".[35] The term was first popularized on the blog Omega Virgin Revolt, where it represented a belief that the entire social system was broken and that one's place in the system was not something any individual could change.[94][120] One who has "taken the black pill" has adopted the belief that they are hopeless, and that their lack of success romantically and sexually is permanent regardless of any changes they might try to make to their physical appearance, personality, or other characteristics.[111][120][84][40]

Researchers at the ADL have said that incels can also follow the red pill ideology. Those who believe they can improve their chances with women are adherents to the red pill, whereas only incels who believe they have no power to change their position in society or chances with women are blackpilled. The ADL writes that, among incels, the beliefs summarized as "red pill" center around the idea that feminism has unbalanced society to favor women and give them too much power. Redpilled incels believe they have the opportunity to fight back against this system which disadvantages them, which they do by trying to make themselves more attractive to women. Conversely, blackpilled incels are those who believe they can do nothing to change their situation. The ADL writes, "This is where the incel movement takes on characteristics of a death cult". Those who have taken the black pill are left with few options, says the ADL: giving up on life (referred to by incels as "LDAR", an abbreviation for "lie down and rot"), dying by suicide, or committing mass violence.[120]

On the former incel subreddit r/braincels, the term "blackpill" was used for memes that criticized women as egocentric, cruel, and shallow.[44]

Lexicology

The term "involuntary celibate" (shortened to "incel") refers to self-identifying members of an online subculture based around the inability to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one, a state they describe as "inceldom" or "incelibacy".[4][5][6][123] It is sometimes used interchangeably or alongside other terms, such as "love-shy" (describing those with social anxiety or excessive shyness preventing romantic success),[38][124] "FA" (short for "forever alone"),[125] "unfuckability",[126] "omegas",[127] "betas",[128] "betafags",[88] "the undersexed",[129] or "the sexless".[23] Alana, the coiner of the term "incel", initially considered using other terms such as "perpetually single" or "dating shy".[36]

Members of incel communities regularly use jargon and a distinct dialect.[94] They often use dehumanizing and vulgar terms for women, such as "femoids" (a portmanteau of "female humanoids",[130] sometimes shortened further to "foids") and "roasties" (a reference to the labia minora, which incels falsely[131] believe changes shape and begins to resemble sliced roast beef after a woman becomes sexually active).[84][132] They refer to attractive, sexually active women as "Stacys", less attractive sexually active women as "Beckys", and attractive sexually active men as "Chads".[41][122] People who are average-looking but not incels are "normies".[84] "Mogging" refers to the act of eclipsing another person in terms of physical appearance and thereby undermining them. Looksmaxxing is an attempt at enhancing one's appearance by methods including getting a haircut and dressing nicely, taking steroids and working out, undergoing plastic surgery, or engaging in alternative techniques such as mewing to improve facial aesthetics.[81][103][133][134] The abbreviation "NEET" refers to people who do not have jobs and are not attending school: "not in education, employment, or training".[128]

Members of incel communities use many variations of the term "incel" to refer to subgroups within the community, such as "volcels" (voluntary celibate; someone who chooses to forego sexual intercourse), "fakecels" (those who claim to be incel, but in reality have recently had sex or been in a relationship), and "truecels" (true incels; men who have never had any sexual or romantic encounters).[103][111][135][136] There are also a number of race-based variations of the term "incel" which refer to people who believe their race is the reason behind their inability to find a partner, including "currycels" (people of South Asian ancestry) and "ricecels" (those of Chinese or Southeast Asian backgrounds), or collectively, "ethnicels".[102][112][137][17]

"Incel" has also come to be used as an insult against people who do not necessarily identify with the subculture, but who are perceived to be sexually inexperienced, undesirable, or unpopular.[138][139]

Demographics

Self-identified incels are mostly male and heterosexual, and are often described as young and friendless introverts.[141] Estimates of the size of incel communities during 2018–2020 varied,[39][127][142] and ranged from the thousands, to tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands.[30][35][121][143] A statistical analysis of the largest incel forum shows that only a few hundred accounts made up the vast majority of forum posts during all of 2021 and most of 2022.[78] About half of incels live with their parents or grandparents.[144]

Many sources describe incels as predominantly white. Sociologist Ross Haenfler was quoted in The Washington Post describing them as primarily white.[145] Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center echoed this to NBC News, saying they are "young, frustrated white males in their late teens into their early twenties who are having a hard time adjusting to adulthood".[58] Jaki and colleagues, publishing linguistic analysis of a large incel forum in The Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict in June 2019, contended that "contrary to what is often reported" there was no definitive evidence that the group is predominantly white, and that "it is impossible to say whether the majority of [the incel forum's] users are white men, but our data implies that this may be less true than expected". They suggested that the various mentions of race on the forum "may reflect, to some extent, the ethnic variety of the forum".[70] Hoffman and colleagues, publishing in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, reported that a March 2020 survey of the same forum determined that most respondents self-identified as Caucasian.[40]

A survey of self-identified incels by researchers from the University of Texas found that incels tended to be slightly center-left. They are significantly left in questions about homosexuality, corporate profits and welfare benefits.[144] In an earlier study, researchers from the University of Texas ran a poll of self-reported incels, which found that 63.58% of those who responded identified as white, a smaller percentage than non-incels in the study. They also found that 44.70% of incels who responded leaned to the left on the political spectrum, 17.47% were centrists, and 38.85% leaned to the right, showing no differences between the incel and the control group of the study.[146]

Self-identified incels are mainly located in North America and Europe, although there are also incel communities for people outside the Anglosphere, such as the Italian website Il Forum dei Brutti.[31][40][147] The English language forums also receive much traffic from non-anglophone countries. Research published in 2020 by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) on the three largest incel forums found they had a total of about 20,000 users, with only about 1,000 who post actively. The FOI found that between 4.6 and 7.3% of the visitors to the forums originated from Sweden, though they caution this may not be accurate given the use of personal VPNs.[148]

Some media outlets depict incels as unemployed or NEET ("not in education, employment, or training") and living with parents.[38]

Female incels

The first incel website, Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project, was gender-inclusive.[149] There have been more contemporary female-specific incel (or "femcel") communities, such as r/TruFemcels[150] and its successor ThePinkPill.[151][152] As of February 2020, the most popular female incel forum was the r/TruFemcels subreddit, with over 22,000 members.[150] It was banned in January 2021 for violating Reddit's rules against promoting hate.[152][151] Another subreddit reportedly associated with self-identified female incels is r/Vindicta, which contains beauty advice.[153][154] There are also hashtags pertaining to the idea of female incels in use on TikTok, such as #femcel, #femcelcore and #femcelrights, which as of 2022, have over 250 million views.[155] There are reported to be tens of thousands of women self-identifying as female incels on the internet.[150]

Nonetheless, there is disagreement in online incel communities on whether women can be incels, with some claiming that male incels grossly outnumber female incels,[156] others claiming that it is impossible for women to be incels at all,[39][153][157] others claiming that only women with a physical deformity can be incels,[158] and others arguing that only unattractive women belonging to the "bottom percentile in terms of appearance" can be incels.[159] Members of male incel communities often reject the concept of a female incel, believing that all women can obtain sex from men, and believing that self-identified female incels are voluntarily celibate. Members of male incel communities may also troll female incels.[85] According to the Anti-Defamation League, the majority of self-identified incels do not believe women can be incels.[103] Journalists have written that outside of the female incels' own communities, few believe women can be incels.[150][160][161] M. Kelly wrote for the Political Research Associates in 2021 that members of incel communities point to the existence of female incels as an argument against criticisms of them as misogynist, but that most incel communities do not accept them and ban them from using their forums.[49]

Female incel communities are also generally overlooked within academic literature about incels. Like members of male incel communities, female incel community members tend to believe that they are victims to their ugliness and think that only unattractive men will date them. They call more attractive looking women "Staceys", who they believe decrease their chance of having sexual contact with men, similar to discussion of "Chads" in male incel forums. They have adopted the idea of the "pink pill", which has been likened to "red pill" and "black pill" terminology, and which describes a belief that some women are considered undesirable and thus are unable to engage in sexual relationships due to society's focus on certain aspects of female attractiveness. Members of female incel communities are more likely to self-blame rather than blaming men for their dating and sexual difficulties. This may be due to gender stereotypes, such as the belief that women do not have a "natural" need for sex.[85] Some women identifying as incels believe they could have casual sex, but fear it would only be from men who would abuse or disrespect them.[150][160][161] Within online female incel communities, misogyny and an impossible feminine beauty ideal are also perceived as reasons for female celibacy.[152][162][163] Many other women have similar problems, but do not self-identify as female incels.[162]

Some female incel communities have been critical of body positivity and mainstream feminism, viewing them as unhelpful to female incels: a former member of the r/TruFemcels community was quoted in The Atlantic saying, "I'd rather be able to talk about being ugly than just try to convince myself that I'm pretty".[164] An expert in psychology interviewed by El País characterized these communities as overly insular and skeptical of outsiders (who are deemed "normies"), in what she described as "cognitive inflexibility". She also stated that, "US culture is less sociable. In Spain, [female incels] would have completely different characteristics... I don't think it would have the same number of followers, to begin with, because in Spain we are more encouraging of interpersonal relationships, and the development of social skills."[153]

Women who identify as incels share some similarities with their male counterparts, such as belief that physical appearance is the most important factor in finding a partner. In other ways they tend to be different; for example, according to journalist Isabelle Kohn, rather than being angry at the men who reject them, they empathize with the men for not wanting to date them. Kohn notes the tendency for women identifying as incels to turn their rage inwards, rather than outwards like males.[150] Journalist Arwa Mahdawi hypothesizes that the fact that females who identify as incels do not go on violent rampages like some of their male counterparts is the most obvious reason why they have not received much attention in mainstream media.[160] In February 2020, Kohn wrote that she could find "mountains" of academic papers on male incels, but none on female incels. She says the assumption that female incels do not exist adds to their pain.[150] Continued neglect of research on female incels was reported in 2024.[165]

Mental health

"Involuntary celibacy" is not a medical or psychological condition. Some people who identify as incel have physical disabilities or psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, autism, and body dysmorphic disorder.[92] A 2022 study found that self-identified incels had higher rates of depression, anxiety, and formal mental diagnoses than the general population: 95% reported depression and 93% reported anxiety. 38% had clinical diagnoses.[166][86]

Some posters to incel forums attribute their inability to find a partner to physical or mental ailments, while some others attribute it to extreme introversion. Many of those identifying as incels engage in self-diagnosis of mental health issues, and members of incel communities often discourage posters who post about mental illness from seeing therapists or otherwise seeking treatment.[111][11][167] Some members of incel communities with severe depression are also suicidal, and some members encourage suicidal members to kill themselves, sometimes recommending they commit acts of mass violence before doing so.[38][11][53][133]

Mass murders and violence

2023 Allen, Texas outlet mall shootingPlymouth shooting2020 Westgate Entertainment District shooting2020 Toronto machete attackHanau shootings2019 Dallas courthouse shooting2018 Tallahassee shootingToronto van attackStoneman Douglas High School shootingAztec High School shootingUmpqua Community College shooting2014 Isla Vista killings
Timeline of violence committed or suspected to have been committed by men who have self-identified as involuntarily celibate, or whose statements align with incel ideologies

Mass murders and other violent attacks have been committed or are suspected to have been committed by men who have self-identified as involuntarily celibate, or whose statements align with incel ideologies. Other intended attacks by such individuals have been thwarted by police before being carried out.

2000s

On August 4, 2009, George Sodini opened fire at an LA Fitness health club in Collier Township, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Three women were murdered and nine other people were injured before Sodini killed himself.[168][169] He purportedly expressed sexual frustration and complained of constant rejections by women on a website registered in his name.[170] Sodini and his actions have been embraced and glorified by some members of incel communities, who sometimes refer to incel violence as "going Sodini".[95][171]

2010s

Elliot Rodger killed six people and injured fourteen others before killing himself in Isla Vista, California on May 23, 2014, near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. These killings drew media attention to the concept of involuntary celibacy, and particularly the misogyny and glorification of violence that are a mainstay of many incel communities. Rodger self-identified as an incel and left behind a 137-page manifesto and YouTube videos in which he detailed his involuntary celibacy and discussed how he wanted revenge for being rejected by women.[36][172][173][95] He had been an active member of a community popular among incels called PUAHate (short for "pickup artist hate"), and referenced it several times in his manifesto.[95][174][175][176] Although PUAHate shut down soon after the attack, Rodger became something of a martyr to some communities that remained, and to some of those that emerged later.[27][47][177] It is common to see references to "E.R." in incel forums, and mass violence by incels is regularly referred to as "going E.R.".[103][40] Rodger has been referenced by the perpetrators or suspected perpetrators of several other mass killings, and is one of several attackers who are regularly praised by members of incel communities.[105][95]

Chris Harper-Mercer killed nine people and injured eight others before killing himself in a shooting at the Umpqua Community College campus on October 1, 2015, in Roseburg, Oregon. He left a manifesto at the scene, outlining his interest in other mass murders including the Isla Vista killings, his anger at not having a girlfriend, and his animus towards the world. In his journal writings, he had related with Elliot Rodger and other mass shooters, describing them as "people who stand with the gods".[58] Before the attack, when someone on an online message board had speculated Harper-Mercer was "saving himself for someone special", Harper-Mercer had replied: 'involuntarily so".[39][178][179][180] Several hours before the shooting, someone suspected to be Harper-Mercer posted a threat to a Pacific Northwest college to /r9k/, a 4chan board with many incel posters.[38][181]

On July 31, 2016, Sheldon Bentley robbed and killed an unconscious man in an alleyway in Edmonton, Alberta. During his trial, Bentley said he killed the man by stomping on his abdomen because he was frustrated with stress from his job as a security guard and with being an incel for four years.[182][183]

William Atchison killed two people before killing himself on December 7, 2017, in Aztec, New Mexico, in a shooting at Aztec High School, where he had previously been a student. He had used the pseudonym "Elliot Rodger" on several online forums and praised "the supreme gentleman" (a term Rodger had used to describe himself, which has since become a common reference among incel communities).[105][184] Atchison had also posted far-right content online.[103]

Nikolas Cruz killed seventeen people and injured seventeen others on February 14, 2018, in a shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Allegedly also motivated by other extremist views, Cruz had previously posted online that "Elliot Rodger will not be forgotten".[58][103][185]

After an April 23, 2018 vehicle-ramming attack in Toronto, Ontario, Alek Minassian was convicted of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder.[106] Shortly before the attack, Minassian had allegedly posted on Facebook that "the Incel Rebellion has already begun" and applauded Rodger.[36][90][186][187] The term "Incel Rebellion" is sometimes used interchangeably with the term "Beta Uprising", which refers to a violent response to incels' perceived sexual deprivation.[4] Following the attack, a poster on a website created to supersede r/incels wrote about Minassian, "I hope this guy wrote a manifesto because he could be our next new saint".[27] Following the attack, police claimed that Minassian had been radicalized by incel communities. A video interview was later released in September 2019 showing Minassian being interrogated by police shortly after the attacks. In the video, Minassian is shown telling police that he was a virgin, and that he was motivated by a resentment of "Chads and Staceys", as well as women who gave "their love and affection to obnoxious brutes" rather than to him. The video also showed Minassian saying that he hoped the alleged attack would "inspire future masses to join me" in committing acts of violence as a part of the "Beta Uprising".[188] The judge who found Minassian guilty on all counts wrote in her decision that Minassian had attempted to tie his attack to the incel community as a way of increasing his notoriety, and that "working out his exact motivation for this attack is ... close to impossible". She found that Minassian had "lie[d] to the police about much of the incel motivation he talked about and that the incel movement was not in fact a primary driving force behind the attack".[189]

On November 2, 2018, Scott Beierle killed two women and injured four women and a man before killing himself in a shooting at the Hot Yoga Tallahassee studio in Tallahassee, Florida.[190] He had been a follower of incel ideologies for a long time, and also had a history of arrests for grabbing women's buttocks.[40][191] In 2014 he posted several YouTube videos of himself espousing extreme hatred for women and expressing anger over not having a girlfriend, mentioning Elliot Rodger in one video. In the months leading up to the shooting, he posted numerous misogynistic, racist, violent, and homophobic songs to SoundCloud.[190][191][192]

In January 2019, Christopher Cleary was arrested for posting on Facebook that he was "planning on shooting up a public place soon and being the next mass shooter" and "killing as many girls as I see" because he had never had a girlfriend and was a virgin. He has been described as an incel in the media.[62][193][194] In May 2019, Cleary was sentenced to up to five years in prison for an attempted threat of terrorism.[195]

Brian Isaack Clyde began what was intended to be a mass shooting at the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse in Dallas, Texas on June 17, 2019, but was shot and fatally wounded by officers from the Federal Protective Service before he injured anyone. Clyde had shared incel memes on social media, along with other posts referencing right-wing beliefs and conspiracy theories.[196][197] Following the incident, the Joint Base Andrews military base briefed its personnel on certain online behaviors among "introverted, sexless individuals," with a spokesman describing them as "a very real threat to military members and civilians".[198]

Self-identified incels have also praised attackers with unclear motives who they believe to be incels. After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, some of the incel community celebrated the shooter Stephen Paddock, who they felt was a hero who was targeting "normies".[27] After the 2018 Toronto shooting, posters on an incel message board expressed excitement with the possibility that the perpetrator might be an incel, although no motive was identified.[101]

2020s

On February 24, 2020, a female spa worker was stabbed to death in an attack that also severely injured her female coworker at an erotic massage parlor in Toronto. On May 19, the Toronto Police Service declared the attack was being treated as a terrorist incident after evidence pointed to the stabbings being motivated by incel ideology, and police laid charges against a 17-year-old male alleged to have committed the stabbings. This was the first time violence thought to be motivated by incel ideologies was prosecuted as an act of terrorism, and is also believed to be the first act of violence not perpetrated by an Islamist extremist to be prosecuted as terrorism in Canada.[66] On September 14, 2022, the perpetrator entered a guilty plea to murder and attempted murder.[199][200][201] The attack was ruled a terrorist attack during sentencing proceedings.[202]

Armando Hernandez Jr. opened fire on May 20, 2020, at Westgate Entertainment District, a mixed-use development in Glendale, Arizona, before being arrested by police. A 19-year-old man was critically injured, while a 30-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl suffered minor injuries. According to the Maricopa County prosecutor, Hernandez identified himself as an incel and claimed he wanted to target couples and shoot at least ten people.[203][204] The prosecutor said, "Mr. Hernandez is a self-professed incel ... He was taking out his anger at society, the feeling that he has been bullied, the feeling that women didn't want him". The prosecutor also alleged that Hernandez sent a video of the attack to a woman he wished to impress.[103]

Between January and the end of July 2020, five self-identified incels were arrested in separate incidents in North America for killing or planning to kill women.[103] Among them was Cole Carini, a man who was charged with making false statements to law enforcement in June 2020 after claiming serious injuries to his hands had been caused by a lawnmower accident. Police alleged that Carini was actually injured while trying to make a bomb, and that he had written a note threatening violence against women and referencing Elliot Rodger.[205]

In April 2021, Malik Sanchez, a 19-year-old self-described incel who praised Elliot Rodger,[206] was arrested on federal charges after allegedly videotaping himself approaching women sitting outside a restaurant in Manhattan, New York and telling them he was going to detonate a bomb.[207] The man had previously been arrested several times for harassing others, often while recording or livestreaming, and for multiple assaults with pepper spray.[208]

In July 2021, a 21-year-old self-identified incel from Ohio was charged with attempting a hate crime and illegally possessing a machine gun. The man was a frequent poster on a popular incel website, where he wrote posts venerating Elliot Rodger. He wrote a manifesto in which he expressed his desire to "slaughter" women, and in another document he allegedly wrote about his goals to kill 3,000 people in a mass casualty attack.[209]

On August 12, 2021, Jake Davison, a 22-year-old man who referenced "inceldom" in online videos and expressed similar views, perpetrated a mass shooting in Plymouth, England. He killed five people, including his mother, and injured two others before killing himself.[210]

On December 27, 2021, an individual who harboured views common with incels, Lyndon McLeod (whose pen name was Roman McClay), committed the 2021 Denver and Lakewood shootings, murdering 5 people before being killed by a police officer.[211][212]

On May 6, 2023, 33-year-old self-identified incel Mauricio Martinez Garcia went on a spree shooting in a mall in Allen, Texas. Garcia killed eight people and injured at least seven others before he was killed by a police officer.[213]

Criticism

Of the subculture

Incel communities have been criticized in the media and by researchers as violent, misogynist, and extremist.[4][5][140][101][56] Keegan Hankes, a senior research analyst working for the Southern Poverty Law Center, has cautioned that exposure to violent content on incel forums "play[s] a very large role" in the radicalization of their members, and describes incel forums as having "more violent rhetoric than I'm used to seeing on even white supremacist sites".[53] Journalist David Futrelle has described incel communities as "violently misogynistic", and is among critics who attribute worsening violent rhetoric on incel forums to the growth of the alt-right and white supremacy, and the overlap between incel communities and online hate groups.[53][101][56][214] Psychologist and sex researcher James Cantor has described incels as "a group of people who usually lack sufficient social skills and ... find themselves very frustrated". He has said that in incel forums "when they're surrounded by other people with similar frustrations, they kind of lose track of what typical discourse is, and they drive themselves into more and more extreme beliefs".[215] Senior research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), Amarnath Amarasingam, has criticized some incel communities where calls for violence are commonplace, saying "under the right set of psychological and personal circumstances, these kinds of forums can be dangerous and push people into violence".[12] Another researcher at the ISD, Jacob Davey, compared the radicalization of men in incel forums to teenagers being urged to go to extreme measures on online forums that promote anorexia and other eating disorders, and to online campaigns convincing people to join ISIL. Speaking about their feelings of entitlement to sex, Davey said the attitude "can go as far as the justification of rape".[48]

While generally agreeing with critics' concerns about misogyny and other negative characteristics in the incel subculture, some commentators have been more sympathetic. In April 2018, economist Robin Hanson wrote a blog post likening access to sex with access to income, writing that he found it puzzling that similar concern had not been shown to incels as to low-income individuals. Hanson was criticized by some for discussing sex as if it was a commodity; others wrote more positively about his opinions.[113] The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote a similarly controversial op-ed in May 2018 titled "The Redistribution of Sex" in which he suggested sex robots and sex workers would inevitably be called upon to satisfy incels' sexual desires.[216][217] Some commentators wrote articles agreeing with this view, including Toby Young, who agreed that sex robots could be a "workable solution";[31] others criticized the column for objectifying women and for legitimizing the incel ideology.[218][219]

Journalist Zack Beauchamp has expressed concern about other types of harm inflicted by incels that may be lost in the attention paid specifically to mass violence; he points to forum posts in which users brag about yelling at, catfishing, and sexually assaulting women.[35] University of Portsmouth lecturer Lisa Sugiura has described incel forums as a "networked misogyny", and urged the posts in such forums be taken seriously not only in the context of hate speech but also as a form of grooming that could radicalize "impressionable and vulnerable disillusioned young men".[48] Some sociological research on incel communities has analyzed them as a hybrid masculinity, in which privileged men distance themselves from hegemonic masculinity while simultaneously reproducing it.[88]

Of platforms providing services to incel communities

Criticism has also been directed against platforms that host or have hosted incel content, including Reddit (which banned the r/incels community in 2017, and banned most of the remaining incel communities in September 2019, but is still home to some identifying as incels) and Twitter.[56][45] Cloudflare, which provides services including DDoS protection, caching and obsfucation of the source host of the content,[220] has also been criticized for protecting incel websites against downtime even when webhosts have terminated service.[221]

Of reporting and research

Reporting on incels by media outlets following the incel-related attacks during the 2010s has been criticized for its "breathless" coverage, for normalizing incel communities by describing them only as "sexually frustrated", and for directing readers to incel communities.[222] Some reporting has also been criticized for giving attackers notoriety by reporting on them at length, or for victim blaming by implying that women who had rejected the attackers' romantic or sexual advances held some responsibility for provoking the attacks.[223][224] Those who have written sympathetically about incels have faced criticism for legitimizing the incel ideology, such as from Samantha Cole in Vice who condemned media outlets who "cove[r] and amplif[y] toxic internet culture as if it's valid ideology".[219]

In a 2021 report published by the Political Research Associates think tank, M. Kelly wrote about recent attempts by various self-identified incels to "rebrand" their communities and stated that "incels' attempts to reframe their identity have also been helped along by researchers, journalists, and 'counter-violent extremism' experts, who, in their attempts to investigate and understand incels, have given them larger, more mainstream platforms. These new platforms have allowed self-identified incels to reframe the public narrative about them; minimize the threat their community poses; and have amplified—or even endorsed—their hate-laced grievances, centering their self-perceived victimhood at the hands of women who deny them sex". Kelly criticized a podcast titled The Incel Project for platforming incel ideologies without challenging or fact-checking their statements, and its creator, Naama Kates, for increasingly "no longer just reporting on incels' misogyny, but justifying and sharing it with the world". Kelly also criticized the International Center for Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE), who published several reports on incels co-authored by Kates and by the founder and lead moderator of a major incel forum, writing that "while previous ICSVE reports have drawn from primary data, including interviews and surveys with members of the community being studied, this seems to be the first time—at ICSVE or in academic research more broadly—that someone actively involved in a community that regularly expresses bigoted or violent ideology has co-authored the resulting study".[49]

Portrayals in fiction

Two episodes of the American crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit are based on incels. In season 16, the episode "Holden's Manifesto" is based on Elliot Rodger and the 2014 Isla Vista killings.[225][226] In season 20, the episode "Revenge" features a group of incels who attack the targets of each other's obsession to exact revenge while creating alibis for one another, the plotline which in itself is inspired by a 1950s novel, Strangers on a Train.[227]

The 2023 science fiction film The Beast also features a character based on Rodger.[228]

Fair Warning, a 2020 thriller novel by Michael Connelly, features a company that buys genetic test data on women genetically identified as vulnerable to sex addiction. The company sells their names and addresses to incels, one of whom is a serial killer.[229][230]

The main character of Whatever, a 1994 novel by French author Michel Houellebecq, has been labeled by Adam Kirsch in The New York Times as a "proto-incel" with the novel as a whole being retrospectively evaluated as predictive of the modern incel movement.[231] It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1999.[232]

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External links

  • "INVCEL". Reply All. Gimlet. May 10, 2018. Podcast episode about the early history of the incel subculture.

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incel, other, uses, disambiguation, portmanteau, involuntary, celibate, term, closely, associated, with, online, subculture, people, mostly, white, male, heterosexual, define, themselves, unable, romantic, sexual, partner, despite, desiring, originally, coined. For other uses see Incel disambiguation Incel ˈ ɪ n s ɛ l IN sel a portmanteau of involuntary celibate 1 is a term closely associated with an online subculture of people mostly white 2 male and heterosexual 3 who define themselves as unable to get a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one 4 5 6 Originally coined as invcel around 1997 by a queer Canadian female student known as Alana the spelling had shifted to incel by 1999 7 8 and the term later rose to prominence in the 2010s following the influence of Elliot Rodger 9 The subculture is often characterized by deep resentment hatred hostility sexual objectification misogyny misanthropy self pity and self loathing racism a sense of entitlement to sex blaming of women and the sexually successful for their situation which is often seen as predetermined due to biological determinism evolutionary genetics or a rigged game a sense of futility and nihilism rape culture and the endorsement of sexual and nonsexual violence against women and sexually active people 10 25 Incel communities have been increasingly criticized by scholars government officials and others for their misogyny the endorsement and encouragement of violence and extremism 26 Over time the subculture has become associated with extremism and terrorism and since 2014 there have been multiple mass killings mostly in North America perpetrated by self identified incels as well as other instances of violence or attempted violence The Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC described the subculture as part of the online male supremacist ecosystem that is included in their list of hate groups 27 28 The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism states that the incel community shares a misogynistic ideology of women as being genetically inferior to men driven by their sexual desire to reproduce with genetically superior males thereby excluding unattractive men such as themselves which exhibits all of the hallmarks of an extremist ideology and that it is the combination of a wish for a mythical past where all men were entitled to sex from subordinated women a sense of predestined personal failure and nihilism which makes the worldview dangerous 29 21 Estimates of the overall size of the subculture vary greatly ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands of individuals 30 31 Contents 1 History 1 1 Extremism 1 2 Forums 1 2 1 Connection to suicide forums 2 Ideology present in incel communities 2 1 In context of related communities 2 2 Promotion of violence 2 2 1 Sexual violence 2 3 Justifications for beliefs 2 4 Red pill and black pill 3 Lexicology 4 Demographics 5 Female incels 6 Mental health 7 Mass murders and violence 7 1 2000s 7 2 2010s 7 3 2020s 8 Criticism 8 1 Of the subculture 8 2 Of platforms providing services to incel communities 8 3 Of reporting and research 9 Portrayals in fiction 10 See also 11 References 12 External linksHistoryThe first website to use the term incel was Alana s Involuntary Celibacy Project founded in 1997 by a Canadian university student known only by her first name Alana to discuss her sexual inactivity with others 32 8 however some media has incorrectly dated it to 1993 the date of a personal interaction that later inspired her to design the page 32 The site was used by people of all genders and sexual orientations to share their thoughts and experiences 32 12 During 1997 she started a mailing list on the topic that used the abbreviation INVCEL later shortened to incel for anybody of any gender who was lonely had never had sex or who hadn t had a relationship in a long time 33 During her college years and after Alana realized she was bisexual and became more comfortable with her identity 34 She stopped participating in her online project around 2000 and gave the site to a stranger 32 35 36 In 2018 Alana said of her project It definitely wasn t a bunch of guys blaming women for their problems That s a pretty sad version of this phenomenon that s happening today Things have changed in the last 20 years 33 When she read about the 2014 Isla Vista killings and that parts of the incel subculture glorified the perpetrator she wrote Like a scientist who invented something that ended up being a weapon of war I can t uninvent this word nor restrict it to the nicer people who need it 37 34 She expressed regret at the change in usage from her original intent of creating an inclusive community for people of all genders who were sexually deprived due to social awkwardness marginalization or mental illness 30 The message board love shy com was founded in 2003 as a place for people who felt perpetually rejected or were extremely shy with potential partners to discuss their situations 38 39 It was less strictly moderated than its counterpart IncelSupport which was also founded in the 2000s While IncelSupport welcomed men and women and banned misogynistic posts love shy com s userbase was overwhelmingly male Over the next decade the membership of love shy com and online fringe right wing communities like 4chan increasingly overlapped 35 In the 2000s incel communities became more extremist as they adopted behaviors common on forums like 4chan and Reddit where extremist posts were encouraged as a way to achieve visibility 40 According to Bruce Hoffman and colleagues writing in Studies in Conflict amp Terrorism as edgy and extremist statements became more prevalent in incel communities so too did extremist trolling and shitposting 40 The r incels subreddit a forum on the website Reddit later became a particularly active incel community It was known as a place where men blamed women for their inceldom sometimes advocated for rape or other forms of violence and were misogynistic and often racist 41 42 On November 7 2017 Reddit banned the r incels subreddit following a new policy that prohibited content that encourages glorifies incites or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people adopted earlier in October 2017 43 42 At the time of the ban the community had around 40 000 members 42 The incel community continued to inhabit Reddit in other subreddits such as on the subreddit r braincels Although the tone of the subreddit was similar to r incels moderators of the r braincels forum said that they did not endorse support or glorify violence or violent people a distinction they made from the subject matter of its predecessor that resulted in its being banned from Reddit 44 The r braincels subreddit was banned later however on September 30 2019 after Reddit again broadened its banning policy 11 45 Incel communities began to migrate away from shared platforms and instead use their own closed forums dedicated specifically to the subject 13 46 The subculture came to wider public notice throughout the 2010s with the banning of r incels and when a series of mass murders were committed by men who either identified as members of the subculture or shared similar ideologies 39 47 Increased interest in incel communities has been attributed to feelings of aggrieved entitlement among some men who feel they are being denied rights they deserve and blame women for their lack of sex 48 Since around 2019 some self identified incels have attempted to redefine their views to appear more mainstream by writing blog posts and articles on subject specific wikis and forums rejecting the more open expressions of misogyny within other segments of the subculture highlighting the heterogeneity of incel communities and reframing incels not as an online subculture but as those experiencing a life circumstance that applies even to individuals who are not members of the subculture 49 50 51 52 M Kelly wrote for the Political Research Associates think tank in 2021 that these attempts to redefine themselves contradicted the communities self identifications and moderation strategies where members regularly challenge other users legitimacy as incels but have accepted as members individuals with sexual experience who nonetheless shared similar political ideologies 49 Extremism Incel communities became more extremist and focused on violence from the late 2010s 53 54 18 This has been attributed to factors including influences from overlapping online hate groups and the rise of the alt right and white supremacist groups 5 55 56 53 The misogynistic and violent rhetoric of some members of these communities has led to numerous bans from websites and web hosts 19 41 57 58 Incel communities continue to exist on more lenient platforms including 4chan 8chan and Gab as well as on web forums created specifically for the topic 38 59 40 More extremist self identified incels have increasingly migrated to obscure locations including gaming chat services and the dark web to avoid site shutdowns and the self censorship that has developed among some incel communities as an effort to avoid drawing scrutiny from law enforcement or website service providers 40 Beginning in 2018 and into the 2020s the incel ideology has been described by North American governments and researchers as a terrorism threat and law enforcement have issued warnings about the subculture 40 60 61 In May 2019 an American man was sentenced to up to five years in prison for attempting to make terrorist threats posting on social media I m planning on shooting up a public place killing as many girls as I see 62 In September 2019 the U S Army warned soldiers about the possibility of violence at movie theaters showing the Joker film after disturbing and very specific chatter was found in conversations among self identified incels on the dark web 40 A January 2020 report by the Texas Department of Public Safety warned that the incel movement was an emerging domestic terrorism threat that could soon match or potentially eclipse the level of lethalness demonstrated by other domestic terrorism types 63 13 64 A 2020 paper published by Bruce Hoffman and colleagues in Studies in Conflict amp Terrorism concluded that the violent manifestations of the ideology pose a new terrorism threat which should not be dismissed or ignored by domestic law enforcement agencies 40 John Horgan a psychology professor at Georgia State University who in 2019 received a 250 000 grant from the U S Department of Homeland Security to study the incel subculture explained why the incel ideology equates to terrorism the fact that incels are aspiring to change things up in a bigger broader ideological sense that s for me what make it a classic example of terrorism That s not saying all incels are terrorists But violent incel activity is unquestionably terrorism in my view 65 In February 2020 an attack in Toronto that was allegedly motivated by incel ideologies became the first such act of violence to be prosecuted as terrorism and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stated that they consider the incel subculture to be an Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremist IMVE movement 66 Jacob Ware publishing in Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses wrote that analysis of incels has been focused within the United States and Canada due to the concentration of incel motivated attacks in those countries 67 The United States Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center in a March 2022 case study titled Hot Yoga Tallahassee A Case Study of Misogynistic Extremism sought to draw attention to the specific threat posed by misogynist extremism 68 Forums The largest incel forum was founded in 2017 by a previous moderator of the r incels subreddit The forum had almost 15 000 members as of October 2022 update 13 46 It is composed of public and registered message boards for self described incels to discuss their personal experiences Moderators ban women and LGBT individuals from joining justifying so by stating that the forum is oriented towards straight men 69 70 Talia Lavin in her book Culture Warlords describes the site s culture as one of one upmanship barroom boast off and shock content 71 Rolling Stone describes a vindictive site culture giving an example of an ex moderator who entered a romantic relationship and was subsequently rejected by site members as a fake incel 72 Vox states that the site has a culture of praising mass killers which is treated lightly by the site s admins 35 The site has used several top level domains since its creation after being suspended by one over violence and hate speech 73 and denied renewal by another 74 The site owners also operate a wiki 51 52 which has been described by researchers publishing in New Media amp Society as cherry picking academic papers to promote misogynistic points 50 Connection to suicide forums See also Sanctioned Suicide In September the UK based Center for Countering Digital Hate CCDH published a report in September 2022 about the largest dedicated incel forum based on monthly visits and a network of other sites run by the same two pseudonymous individuals The Washington Post New York Times and the CCDH identified them as Uruguay based Diego Joaquin Galante and United States based Lamarcus Small 75 76 77 78 In December 2021 the New York Times reported that it had identified 45 people individually who died in connection to a website called Sanctioned Suicide 79 and estimated that the true number was likely much higher 80 79 The Times reporters discovered that Galante and Small created and operated the suicide website in addition to their several incel forums The CCDH reported that Galante and Small also maintained forums for online communities dedicated to body image and unemployment 75 78 Ideology present in incel communitiesMany incel communities are characterized by resentment and hatred self pity racism misogyny and misanthropy 25 Discussions often revolve around the belief that men are entitled to sex other common topics include idleness loneliness unhappiness suicide sexual surrogates and prostitutes as well as attributes they believe increase one s desirability as a partner such as income or personality 39 81 15 The incel community has a shared victimhood identity in which individuals fatalistically celebrate their failures and discourage each other from seeking romantic success 82 Many self identified incels adopt the scientific blackpill a series of social psychology studies that purport to scientifically prove their victimization 10 Opposition to feminism and women s rights is common and some posters blame women s liberation for their inability to find a partner 83 Some believe there was a golden age in which couples married early were strictly monogamous and adhered to traditional gender roles They believe that during this time looks played less of a role in romantic pairings and men s entitlement to sex with women was never denied 40 84 Those holding this belief often disagree about precisely when this golden age occurred but they concur that it was gradually destroyed by feminism the sexual revolution women s liberation and technological progress 84 Racism is generally considered to be common on incel forums 25 though some researchers have questioned its prevalence In 2019 Jaki et al estimated that 3 percent of comments on incel forums contained words from a list of racist words identified by the researchers 70 85 Antisemitic beliefs are also regularly found on incel forums with some posters going so far as to blame the rise of feminism on a plot masterminded by Jews to weaken the Western world 35 40 Some researchers have questioned linguistic analysis of incel forums as the primary methodology for studying the subculture recommending that future researchers employ qualitative methods such as one on one interviews to obtain a more nuanced view and to avoid results being skewed by the prevalence of shitposting on incel forums 86 736 87 In context of related communities Incel communities are a part of the broader manosphere a loose collection of misogynist movements that also includes men s rights activists MRAs Men Going Their Own Way MGTOW pickup artists PUAs and fathers rights groups 88 89 Journalists for the New York Times in 2018 wrote that involuntary celibacy is an adaptation of the idea of male supremacy and that the communities have evolved into a movement made up of people some celibate some not who believe that women should be treated as sexual objects with few rights 90 91 The Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC also described the subculture as part of the online male supremacist ecosystem which they began including in their list of hate groups in 2018 28 While the incel ideology involves the belief that one is physically inferior to the rest of society often referring to oneself as subhuman researchers have agreed that self identified incels also espouse supremacist views either that they are superior to women or superior to non incels in general 84 15 92 93 A 2019 study published in Terrorism and Political Violence found that self identified incels believe themselves to be the only ones who are capable of pro social values and intelligent enough high IQ to see the truth about the social world The study determined that they followed a pattern that is typical of extremist groups ascribing highly negative values to out groups and positive values to in groups with the unusual caveat that despite seeing themselves as psychologically superior they also view themselves negatively in terms of physical appearance 84 Incel communities sometimes overlap with communities such as Men Going Their Own Way 94 men s rights activism people who believe they are experiencing true forced loneliness TFL 81 and pickup artistry 39 95 although at least one incel website has expressed hatred for pickup artistry and accused pickup artists and dating coaches of financially exploiting incels 95 96 97 Media scholar Debbie Ging writes that incels discourse around victimhood and aggrieved entitlement began on 4chan and has spread into more mainstream groups such as men s rights activists MRAs and Men Going Their Own Way MGTOW 88 Incel communities have also been observed to overlap with far right groups with the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right noting that the subculture is part of a growing trend of radical right movements that are distressed by neoliberalism especially women s empowerment and immigration 98 40 Hoffman and colleagues publishing in Studies in Conflict amp Terrorism stated that a particularly worrisome trend is how seamlessly the militant incel community has been integrated into the alt right tapestry with common grievances and intermingling membership bringing the two extremisms closer together 40 Der Spiegel reported in March 2021 on the overlap between the incel community and the Feuerkrieg Division a group modeled after the Atomwaffen Division a neo Nazi terrorist network 13 Promotion of violence nbsp 2014 memorial service at Harder Stadium for the victims of the 2014 Isla Vista killings by self identified incel Elliot RodgerSome discussions in incel communities endorse violence against sexually active women and more sexually successful men 42 99 100 harassment of women 101 including activities such as catfishing 101 and suicide 102 According to the Anti Defamation League they form the most violent community within the manosphere 103 In some incel communities it is common for posts to glorify violence by self identified incels such as Elliot Rodger perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings and Alek Minassian perpetrator of the 2018 Toronto van attack 104 105 106 as well as by those they believe shared their ideology such as Marc Lepine perpetrator of the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre 101 Seung Hui Cho perpetrator of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting 107 and George Sodini perpetrator of the 2009 Collier Township shooting 95 Rodger is the most frequently referenced often being referred to as their saint 105 with memes in which his face has been superimposed onto paintings of Christian icons Some incels consider him to be the true progenitor of today s online incel communities 35 The BBC described Rodger in 2020 as the founding father of the incel ideology 108 Some within these communities view violence as the only solution to what they see as societal oppression and abuse against them and speak frequently of incel uprisings and revolts Others take the more nihilistic view that nothing will change society even violent acts and focus their efforts on constructing a scientific justification for this nihilism 10 Some support the idea of violence as revenge on society without the hope it will lead to societal change 84 However other researchers have questioned the degree of violence found in incel communities with some suggesting that extreme inceldom looks more like suicidality than violence toward others 82 Some violent posts may be motivated by status seeking behavior by individuals on forums rather than a desire to promote violence 86 735 A 2021 study found that the overwhelming majority of self identified incels themselves do not think that incel groups promote violence 109 86 735 and a 2022 study found that most self identified incels surveyed 79 rejected violence 82 110 Sexual violence A subgroup of self identified incels who frequent websites founded by Nathan Larson who was a perennial political candidate and active participant in incel communities work deliberately to convince other self identified incels that they are justified in raping women if they are rejected sexually 35 Some self identified incels describe women s sexual rejection of them as reverse rape a phenomenon they consider to be equally harmful as rape 103 A September 2022 report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate on the largest dedicated incel forum found that users posted about rape once every 29 minutes during their study period and used the word kill 1 181 times in one month 89 of forum users during the study period expressed that they support rape in general According to the report some posters on the forum try to normalize the idea of child rape and more than half the total forum during their study period supported pedophilia 78 The report also exposed that the incel forum site operators had changed a forum rule in March 2022 to allow for the sexualization of pubescent minors narrowing an existing rule to outlaw only the sexualization of pre pubescent minors 78 76 Justifications for beliefs Many self identified incels justify their prejudices using interpretations taken from concepts such as biological determinism and evolutionary psychology 111 92 Self identified incels also regularly endorse the ideas of female hypergamy genetic superiority of men over women the 80 20 rule an application of the Pareto principle which suggests that 80 of women desire the top 20 of most attractive men and among non white men within the subculture the just be white JBW theory which suggests that Caucasians face the fewest obstacles to relationships and sex 83 112 94 Self identified incels also believe that people seeking a romantic or sexual partner participate in a cruel mercenary and Darwinian sexual selection wherein incels are genetically unfit and where women hold an advantage for reasons ranging from feminism to the use of cosmetics 113 Incels may attribute their lack of sexual success to factors such as shyness sex segregated work environments negative body image 114 penis size 112 or their physical appearance 115 and commonly believe that the only thing more important than looks in improving a man s eligibility as a prospective partner is wealth 116 Some justify their beliefs based on the works of fringe social psychologist Brian Gilmartin and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson 39 111 91 Red pill and black pill See also Red pill and blue pill The red pill is an allusion that is common among manosphere communities as well as some communities outside of the manosphere 117 It originates from the dilemma in the movie The Matrix where the protagonist must choose whether to remain in a world of illusion taking the blue pill or to see the world as it really is taking the red pill 40 118 Among communities that use the term the red pill often refers to the core set of beliefs of that community and people who are redpilled or who have taken the red pill are those who hold those beliefs In manosphere communities such as men s rights groups and according to some researchers in incel communities as well taking the red pill means seeing a world where feminism has given women too much power over men and male privilege does not exist 11 118 119 120 The black pill is an extension of the red and blue pill analogy There is some disagreement among researchers and journalists over which beliefs are red pill and which are black pill and whether the black pill ideology is a distinguishing belief of the incel ideology or if there are self identified incels who do not subscribe to black pill ideas Some researchers and journalists use the term red pill to refer to the set of beliefs commonly held by men s rights activists and the term black pill to summarize the incel ideology as a whole 11 112 Hoffman et al have said that Taking the black pill is critical to the incel identity since it means recognizing inceldom as a permanent condition 40 Aja Romano writing for Vox has said what unites all incels is something known as the black pill 11 Researchers at the Anti Defamation League ADL write that there are some incels who believe in the red pill and others who believe in the black pill 120 The black pill generally refers to a set of beliefs generally only held by incel communities which include biological determinism fatalism and defeatism for unattractive people 10 These beliefs are supported by continued reference on incel forums to scientific studies in fields such as psychology sociology and evolutionary biology 121 failed verification Believers are referred to as being blackpilled 122 The black pill has been described by Vox correspondent Zack Beauchamp as a profoundly sexist ideology that amounts to a fundamental rejection of women s sexual emancipation labeling women shallow cruel creatures who will choose only the most attractive men if given the choice 35 The term was first popularized on the blog Omega Virgin Revolt where it represented a belief that the entire social system was broken and that one s place in the system was not something any individual could change 94 120 One who has taken the black pill has adopted the belief that they are hopeless and that their lack of success romantically and sexually is permanent regardless of any changes they might try to make to their physical appearance personality or other characteristics 111 120 84 40 Researchers at the ADL have said that incels can also follow the red pill ideology Those who believe they can improve their chances with women are adherents to the red pill whereas only incels who believe they have no power to change their position in society or chances with women are blackpilled The ADL writes that among incels the beliefs summarized as red pill center around the idea that feminism has unbalanced society to favor women and give them too much power Redpilled incels believe they have the opportunity to fight back against this system which disadvantages them which they do by trying to make themselves more attractive to women Conversely blackpilled incels are those who believe they can do nothing to change their situation The ADL writes This is where the incel movement takes on characteristics of a death cult Those who have taken the black pill are left with few options says the ADL giving up on life referred to by incels as LDAR an abbreviation for lie down and rot dying by suicide or committing mass violence 120 On the former incel subreddit r braincels the term blackpill was used for memes that criticized women as egocentric cruel and shallow 44 LexicologyThe term involuntary celibate shortened to incel refers to self identifying members of an online subculture based around the inability to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one a state they describe as inceldom or incelibacy 4 5 6 123 It is sometimes used interchangeably or alongside other terms such as love shy describing those with social anxiety or excessive shyness preventing romantic success 38 124 FA short for forever alone 125 unfuckability 126 omegas 127 betas 128 betafags 88 the undersexed 129 or the sexless 23 Alana the coiner of the term incel initially considered using other terms such as perpetually single or dating shy 36 Members of incel communities regularly use jargon and a distinct dialect 94 They often use dehumanizing and vulgar terms for women such as femoids a portmanteau of female humanoids 130 sometimes shortened further to foids and roasties a reference to the labia minora which incels falsely 131 believe changes shape and begins to resemble sliced roast beef after a woman becomes sexually active 84 132 They refer to attractive sexually active women as Stacys less attractive sexually active women as Beckys and attractive sexually active men as Chads 41 122 People who are average looking but not incels are normies 84 Mogging refers to the act of eclipsing another person in terms of physical appearance and thereby undermining them Looksmaxxing is an attempt at enhancing one s appearance by methods including getting a haircut and dressing nicely taking steroids and working out undergoing plastic surgery or engaging in alternative techniques such as mewing to improve facial aesthetics 81 103 133 134 The abbreviation NEET refers to people who do not have jobs and are not attending school not in education employment or training 128 Members of incel communities use many variations of the term incel to refer to subgroups within the community such as volcels voluntary celibate someone who chooses to forego sexual intercourse fakecels those who claim to be incel but in reality have recently had sex or been in a relationship and truecels true incels men who have never had any sexual or romantic encounters 103 111 135 136 There are also a number of race based variations of the term incel which refer to people who believe their race is the reason behind their inability to find a partner including currycels people of South Asian ancestry and ricecels those of Chinese or Southeast Asian backgrounds or collectively ethnicels 102 112 137 17 Incel has also come to be used as an insult against people who do not necessarily identify with the subculture but who are perceived to be sexually inexperienced undesirable or unpopular 138 139 DemographicsSelf identified incels are mostly male and heterosexual and are often described as young and friendless introverts 141 Estimates of the size of incel communities during 2018 2020 varied 39 127 142 and ranged from the thousands to tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands 30 35 121 143 A statistical analysis of the largest incel forum shows that only a few hundred accounts made up the vast majority of forum posts during all of 2021 and most of 2022 78 About half of incels live with their parents or grandparents 144 Many sources describe incels as predominantly white Sociologist Ross Haenfler was quoted in The Washington Post describing them as primarily white 145 Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center echoed this to NBC News saying they are young frustrated white males in their late teens into their early twenties who are having a hard time adjusting to adulthood 58 Jaki and colleagues publishing linguistic analysis of a large incel forum in The Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict in June 2019 contended that contrary to what is often reported there was no definitive evidence that the group is predominantly white and that it is impossible to say whether the majority of the incel forum s users are white men but our data implies that this may be less true than expected They suggested that the various mentions of race on the forum may reflect to some extent the ethnic variety of the forum 70 Hoffman and colleagues publishing in Studies in Conflict amp Terrorism reported that a March 2020 survey of the same forum determined that most respondents self identified as Caucasian 40 A survey of self identified incels by researchers from the University of Texas found that incels tended to be slightly center left They are significantly left in questions about homosexuality corporate profits and welfare benefits 144 In an earlier study researchers from the University of Texas ran a poll of self reported incels which found that 63 58 of those who responded identified as white a smaller percentage than non incels in the study They also found that 44 70 of incels who responded leaned to the left on the political spectrum 17 47 were centrists and 38 85 leaned to the right showing no differences between the incel and the control group of the study 146 Self identified incels are mainly located in North America and Europe although there are also incel communities for people outside the Anglosphere such as the Italian website Il Forum dei Brutti 31 40 147 The English language forums also receive much traffic from non anglophone countries Research published in 2020 by the Swedish Defence Research Agency FOI on the three largest incel forums found they had a total of about 20 000 users with only about 1 000 who post actively The FOI found that between 4 6 and 7 3 of the visitors to the forums originated from Sweden though they caution this may not be accurate given the use of personal VPNs 148 Some media outlets depict incels as unemployed or NEET not in education employment or training and living with parents 38 Female incelsThe first incel website Alana s Involuntary Celibacy Project was gender inclusive 149 There have been more contemporary female specific incel or femcel communities such as r TruFemcels 150 and its successor ThePinkPill 151 152 As of February 2020 update the most popular female incel forum was the r TruFemcels subreddit with over 22 000 members 150 It was banned in January 2021 for violating Reddit s rules against promoting hate 152 151 Another subreddit reportedly associated with self identified female incels is r Vindicta which contains beauty advice 153 154 There are also hashtags pertaining to the idea of female incels in use on TikTok such as femcel femcelcore and femcelrights which as of 2022 have over 250 million views 155 There are reported to be tens of thousands of women self identifying as female incels on the internet 150 Nonetheless there is disagreement in online incel communities on whether women can be incels with some claiming that male incels grossly outnumber female incels 156 others claiming that it is impossible for women to be incels at all 39 153 157 others claiming that only women with a physical deformity can be incels 158 and others arguing that only unattractive women belonging to the bottom percentile in terms of appearance can be incels 159 Members of male incel communities often reject the concept of a female incel believing that all women can obtain sex from men and believing that self identified female incels are voluntarily celibate Members of male incel communities may also troll female incels 85 According to the Anti Defamation League the majority of self identified incels do not believe women can be incels 103 Journalists have written that outside of the female incels own communities few believe women can be incels 150 160 161 M Kelly wrote for the Political Research Associates in 2021 that members of incel communities point to the existence of female incels as an argument against criticisms of them as misogynist but that most incel communities do not accept them and ban them from using their forums 49 Female incel communities are also generally overlooked within academic literature about incels Like members of male incel communities female incel community members tend to believe that they are victims to their ugliness and think that only unattractive men will date them They call more attractive looking women Staceys who they believe decrease their chance of having sexual contact with men similar to discussion of Chads in male incel forums They have adopted the idea of the pink pill which has been likened to red pill and black pill terminology and which describes a belief that some women are considered undesirable and thus are unable to engage in sexual relationships due to society s focus on certain aspects of female attractiveness Members of female incel communities are more likely to self blame rather than blaming men for their dating and sexual difficulties This may be due to gender stereotypes such as the belief that women do not have a natural need for sex 85 Some women identifying as incels believe they could have casual sex but fear it would only be from men who would abuse or disrespect them 150 160 161 Within online female incel communities misogyny and an impossible feminine beauty ideal are also perceived as reasons for female celibacy 152 162 163 Many other women have similar problems but do not self identify as female incels 162 Some female incel communities have been critical of body positivity and mainstream feminism viewing them as unhelpful to female incels a former member of the r TruFemcels community was quoted in The Atlantic saying I d rather be able to talk about being ugly than just try to convince myself that I m pretty 164 An expert in psychology interviewed by El Pais characterized these communities as overly insular and skeptical of outsiders who are deemed normies in what she described as cognitive inflexibility She also stated that US culture is less sociable In Spain female incels would have completely different characteristics I don t think it would have the same number of followers to begin with because in Spain we are more encouraging of interpersonal relationships and the development of social skills 153 Women who identify as incels share some similarities with their male counterparts such as belief that physical appearance is the most important factor in finding a partner In other ways they tend to be different for example according to journalist Isabelle Kohn rather than being angry at the men who reject them they empathize with the men for not wanting to date them Kohn notes the tendency for women identifying as incels to turn their rage inwards rather than outwards like males 150 Journalist Arwa Mahdawi hypothesizes that the fact that females who identify as incels do not go on violent rampages like some of their male counterparts is the most obvious reason why they have not received much attention in mainstream media 160 In February 2020 Kohn wrote that she could find mountains of academic papers on male incels but none on female incels She says the assumption that female incels do not exist adds to their pain 150 Continued neglect of research on female incels was reported in 2024 165 Mental health Involuntary celibacy is not a medical or psychological condition Some people who identify as incel have physical disabilities or psychological disorders such as depression anxiety autism and body dysmorphic disorder 92 A 2022 study found that self identified incels had higher rates of depression anxiety and formal mental diagnoses than the general population 95 reported depression and 93 reported anxiety 38 had clinical diagnoses 166 86 Some posters to incel forums attribute their inability to find a partner to physical or mental ailments while some others attribute it to extreme introversion Many of those identifying as incels engage in self diagnosis of mental health issues and members of incel communities often discourage posters who post about mental illness from seeing therapists or otherwise seeking treatment 111 11 167 Some members of incel communities with severe depression are also suicidal and some members encourage suicidal members to kill themselves sometimes recommending they commit acts of mass violence before doing so 38 11 53 133 Mass murders and violenceTimeline of violence committed or suspected to have been committed by men who have self identified as involuntarily celibate or whose statements align with incel ideologies Mass murders and other violent attacks have been committed or are suspected to have been committed by men who have self identified as involuntarily celibate or whose statements align with incel ideologies Other intended attacks by such individuals have been thwarted by police before being carried out 2000s On August 4 2009 George Sodini opened fire at an LA Fitness health club in Collier Township a suburb of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Three women were murdered and nine other people were injured before Sodini killed himself 168 169 He purportedly expressed sexual frustration and complained of constant rejections by women on a website registered in his name 170 Sodini and his actions have been embraced and glorified by some members of incel communities who sometimes refer to incel violence as going Sodini 95 171 2010s Elliot Rodger killed six people and injured fourteen others before killing himself in Isla Vista California on May 23 2014 near the campus of University of California Santa Barbara These killings drew media attention to the concept of involuntary celibacy and particularly the misogyny and glorification of violence that are a mainstay of many incel communities Rodger self identified as an incel and left behind a 137 page manifesto and YouTube videos in which he detailed his involuntary celibacy and discussed how he wanted revenge for being rejected by women 36 172 173 95 He had been an active member of a community popular among incels called PUAHate short for pickup artist hate and referenced it several times in his manifesto 95 174 175 176 Although PUAHate shut down soon after the attack Rodger became something of a martyr to some communities that remained and to some of those that emerged later 27 47 177 It is common to see references to E R in incel forums and mass violence by incels is regularly referred to as going E R 103 40 Rodger has been referenced by the perpetrators or suspected perpetrators of several other mass killings and is one of several attackers who are regularly praised by members of incel communities 105 95 Chris Harper Mercer killed nine people and injured eight others before killing himself in a shooting at the Umpqua Community College campus on October 1 2015 in Roseburg Oregon He left a manifesto at the scene outlining his interest in other mass murders including the Isla Vista killings his anger at not having a girlfriend and his animus towards the world In his journal writings he had related with Elliot Rodger and other mass shooters describing them as people who stand with the gods 58 Before the attack when someone on an online message board had speculated Harper Mercer was saving himself for someone special Harper Mercer had replied involuntarily so 39 178 179 180 Several hours before the shooting someone suspected to be Harper Mercer posted a threat to a Pacific Northwest college to r9k a 4chan board with many incel posters 38 181 On July 31 2016 Sheldon Bentley robbed and killed an unconscious man in an alleyway in Edmonton Alberta During his trial Bentley said he killed the man by stomping on his abdomen because he was frustrated with stress from his job as a security guard and with being an incel for four years 182 183 William Atchison killed two people before killing himself on December 7 2017 in Aztec New Mexico in a shooting at Aztec High School where he had previously been a student He had used the pseudonym Elliot Rodger on several online forums and praised the supreme gentleman a term Rodger had used to describe himself which has since become a common reference among incel communities 105 184 Atchison had also posted far right content online 103 Nikolas Cruz killed seventeen people and injured seventeen others on February 14 2018 in a shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida Allegedly also motivated by other extremist views Cruz had previously posted online that Elliot Rodger will not be forgotten 58 103 185 After an April 23 2018 vehicle ramming attack in Toronto Ontario Alek Minassian was convicted of 10 counts of first degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder 106 Shortly before the attack Minassian had allegedly posted on Facebook that the Incel Rebellion has already begun and applauded Rodger 36 90 186 187 The term Incel Rebellion is sometimes used interchangeably with the term Beta Uprising which refers to a violent response to incels perceived sexual deprivation 4 Following the attack a poster on a website created to supersede r incels wrote about Minassian I hope this guy wrote a manifesto because he could be our next new saint 27 Following the attack police claimed that Minassian had been radicalized by incel communities A video interview was later released in September 2019 showing Minassian being interrogated by police shortly after the attacks In the video Minassian is shown telling police that he was a virgin and that he was motivated by a resentment of Chads and Staceys as well as women who gave their love and affection to obnoxious brutes rather than to him The video also showed Minassian saying that he hoped the alleged attack would inspire future masses to join me in committing acts of violence as a part of the Beta Uprising 188 The judge who found Minassian guilty on all counts wrote in her decision that Minassian had attempted to tie his attack to the incel community as a way of increasing his notoriety and that working out his exact motivation for this attack is close to impossible She found that Minassian had lie d to the police about much of the incel motivation he talked about and that the incel movement was not in fact a primary driving force behind the attack 189 On November 2 2018 Scott Beierle killed two women and injured four women and a man before killing himself in a shooting at the Hot Yoga Tallahassee studio in Tallahassee Florida 190 He had been a follower of incel ideologies for a long time and also had a history of arrests for grabbing women s buttocks 40 191 In 2014 he posted several YouTube videos of himself espousing extreme hatred for women and expressing anger over not having a girlfriend mentioning Elliot Rodger in one video In the months leading up to the shooting he posted numerous misogynistic racist violent and homophobic songs to SoundCloud 190 191 192 In January 2019 Christopher Cleary was arrested for posting on Facebook that he was planning on shooting up a public place soon and being the next mass shooter and killing as many girls as I see because he had never had a girlfriend and was a virgin He has been described as an incel in the media 62 193 194 In May 2019 Cleary was sentenced to up to five years in prison for an attempted threat of terrorism 195 Brian Isaack Clyde began what was intended to be a mass shooting at the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse in Dallas Texas on June 17 2019 but was shot and fatally wounded by officers from the Federal Protective Service before he injured anyone Clyde had shared incel memes on social media along with other posts referencing right wing beliefs and conspiracy theories 196 197 Following the incident the Joint Base Andrews military base briefed its personnel on certain online behaviors among introverted sexless individuals with a spokesman describing them as a very real threat to military members and civilians 198 Self identified incels have also praised attackers with unclear motives who they believe to be incels After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting some of the incel community celebrated the shooter Stephen Paddock who they felt was a hero who was targeting normies 27 After the 2018 Toronto shooting posters on an incel message board expressed excitement with the possibility that the perpetrator might be an incel although no motive was identified 101 2020s On February 24 2020 a female spa worker was stabbed to death in an attack that also severely injured her female coworker at an erotic massage parlor in Toronto On May 19 the Toronto Police Service declared the attack was being treated as a terrorist incident after evidence pointed to the stabbings being motivated by incel ideology and police laid charges against a 17 year old male alleged to have committed the stabbings This was the first time violence thought to be motivated by incel ideologies was prosecuted as an act of terrorism and is also believed to be the first act of violence not perpetrated by an Islamist extremist to be prosecuted as terrorism in Canada 66 On September 14 2022 the perpetrator entered a guilty plea to murder and attempted murder 199 200 201 The attack was ruled a terrorist attack during sentencing proceedings 202 Armando Hernandez Jr opened fire on May 20 2020 at Westgate Entertainment District a mixed use development in Glendale Arizona before being arrested by police A 19 year old man was critically injured while a 30 year old woman and a 16 year old girl suffered minor injuries According to the Maricopa County prosecutor Hernandez identified himself as an incel and claimed he wanted to target couples and shoot at least ten people 203 204 The prosecutor said Mr Hernandez is a self professed incel He was taking out his anger at society the feeling that he has been bullied the feeling that women didn t want him The prosecutor also alleged that Hernandez sent a video of the attack to a woman he wished to impress 103 Between January and the end of July 2020 update five self identified incels were arrested in separate incidents in North America for killing or planning to kill women 103 Among them was Cole Carini a man who was charged with making false statements to law enforcement in June 2020 after claiming serious injuries to his hands had been caused by a lawnmower accident Police alleged that Carini was actually injured while trying to make a bomb and that he had written a note threatening violence against women and referencing Elliot Rodger 205 In April 2021 Malik Sanchez a 19 year old self described incel who praised Elliot Rodger 206 was arrested on federal charges after allegedly videotaping himself approaching women sitting outside a restaurant in Manhattan New York and telling them he was going to detonate a bomb 207 The man had previously been arrested several times for harassing others often while recording or livestreaming and for multiple assaults with pepper spray 208 In July 2021 a 21 year old self identified incel from Ohio was charged with attempting a hate crime and illegally possessing a machine gun The man was a frequent poster on a popular incel website where he wrote posts venerating Elliot Rodger He wrote a manifesto in which he expressed his desire to slaughter women and in another document he allegedly wrote about his goals to kill 3 000 people in a mass casualty attack 209 On August 12 2021 Jake Davison a 22 year old man who referenced inceldom in online videos and expressed similar views perpetrated a mass shooting in Plymouth England He killed five people including his mother and injured two others before killing himself 210 On December 27 2021 an individual who harboured views common with incels Lyndon McLeod whose pen name was Roman McClay committed the 2021 Denver and Lakewood shootings murdering 5 people before being killed by a police officer 211 212 On May 6 2023 33 year old self identified incel Mauricio Martinez Garcia went on a spree shooting in a mall in Allen Texas Garcia killed eight people and injured at least seven others before he was killed by a police officer 213 CriticismOf the subculture Incel communities have been criticized in the media and by researchers as violent misogynist and extremist 4 5 140 101 56 Keegan Hankes a senior research analyst working for the Southern Poverty Law Center has cautioned that exposure to violent content on incel forums play s a very large role in the radicalization of their members and describes incel forums as having more violent rhetoric than I m used to seeing on even white supremacist sites 53 Journalist David Futrelle has described incel communities as violently misogynistic and is among critics who attribute worsening violent rhetoric on incel forums to the growth of the alt right and white supremacy and the overlap between incel communities and online hate groups 53 101 56 214 Psychologist and sex researcher James Cantor has described incels as a group of people who usually lack sufficient social skills and find themselves very frustrated He has said that in incel forums when they re surrounded by other people with similar frustrations they kind of lose track of what typical discourse is and they drive themselves into more and more extreme beliefs 215 Senior research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue ISD Amarnath Amarasingam has criticized some incel communities where calls for violence are commonplace saying under the right set of psychological and personal circumstances these kinds of forums can be dangerous and push people into violence 12 Another researcher at the ISD Jacob Davey compared the radicalization of men in incel forums to teenagers being urged to go to extreme measures on online forums that promote anorexia and other eating disorders and to online campaigns convincing people to join ISIL Speaking about their feelings of entitlement to sex Davey said the attitude can go as far as the justification of rape 48 While generally agreeing with critics concerns about misogyny and other negative characteristics in the incel subculture some commentators have been more sympathetic In April 2018 economist Robin Hanson wrote a blog post likening access to sex with access to income writing that he found it puzzling that similar concern had not been shown to incels as to low income individuals Hanson was criticized by some for discussing sex as if it was a commodity others wrote more positively about his opinions 113 The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote a similarly controversial op ed in May 2018 titled The Redistribution of Sex in which he suggested sex robots and sex workers would inevitably be called upon to satisfy incels sexual desires 216 217 Some commentators wrote articles agreeing with this view including Toby Young who agreed that sex robots could be a workable solution 31 others criticized the column for objectifying women and for legitimizing the incel ideology 218 219 Journalist Zack Beauchamp has expressed concern about other types of harm inflicted by incels that may be lost in the attention paid specifically to mass violence he points to forum posts in which users brag about yelling at catfishing and sexually assaulting women 35 University of Portsmouth lecturer Lisa Sugiura has described incel forums as a networked misogyny and urged the posts in such forums be taken seriously not only in the context of hate speech but also as a form of grooming that could radicalize impressionable and vulnerable disillusioned young men 48 Some sociological research on incel communities has analyzed them as a hybrid masculinity in which privileged men distance themselves from hegemonic masculinity while simultaneously reproducing it 88 Of platforms providing services to incel communities Criticism has also been directed against platforms that host or have hosted incel content including Reddit which banned the r incels community in 2017 and banned most of the remaining incel communities in September 2019 but is still home to some identifying as incels and Twitter 56 45 Cloudflare which provides services including DDoS protection caching and obsfucation of the source host of the content 220 has also been criticized for protecting incel websites against downtime even when webhosts have terminated service 221 Of reporting and research Reporting on incels by media outlets following the incel related attacks during the 2010s has been criticized for its breathless coverage for normalizing incel communities by describing them only as sexually frustrated and for directing readers to incel communities 222 Some reporting has also been criticized for giving attackers notoriety by reporting on them at length or for victim blaming by implying that women who had rejected the attackers romantic or sexual advances held some responsibility for provoking the attacks 223 224 Those who have written sympathetically about incels have faced criticism for legitimizing the incel ideology such as from Samantha Cole in Vice who condemned media outlets who cove r and amplif y toxic internet culture as if it s valid ideology 219 In a 2021 report published by the Political Research Associates think tank M Kelly wrote about recent attempts by various self identified incels to rebrand their communities and stated that incels attempts to reframe their identity have also been helped along by researchers journalists and counter violent extremism experts who in their attempts to investigate and understand incels have given them larger more mainstream platforms These new platforms have allowed self identified incels to reframe the public narrative about them minimize the threat their community poses and have amplified or even endorsed their hate laced grievances centering their self perceived victimhood at the hands of women who deny them sex Kelly criticized a podcast titled The Incel Project for platforming incel ideologies without challenging or fact checking their statements and its creator Naama Kates for increasingly no longer just reporting on incels misogyny but justifying and sharing it with the world Kelly also criticized the International Center for Study of Violent Extremism ICSVE who published several reports on incels co authored by Kates and by the founder and lead moderator of a major incel forum writing that while previous ICSVE reports have drawn from 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