May 07, 2025

Incel-ation

56 minutes

EPISODE 136 | Incel-ation

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

This is the sad and sometimes scary world of incels.

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SECTIONS

02:22 - The 2014 Isla Vista attacks

07:22 - Incels make the front page, #NotAllMen, #YesAllWomen, Minassian

11:06 - Incel started as an online space for everyone, toxic masculinity took it over

16:14 - An Incel lexicon: Alphas, Betas and Omegas; Chads, Stacys, Beckys, PUA hate, Lookism, many types of -cels, rating systems, Chadfishing

28:35 - Bluepill, cucks, redpill, soyboys, gymaxxing, blackpill, pinkpill, JBpill, hERoes, suicidal ideation, fakecels, more -pills

39:34 - Sexual violence, femoids, AWALT, what to call all this, more attacks, pathological interpersonal victimhood, NEET, NoFap builds character, online bragging

50:58 - The media doesn't understand the incel world, can it be "cured"?

Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

Incels (Involuntary celibates) at the ADL

Incels on ISD Explainers

Our Incel Problem on Vox

Incels: The Worrying Rise of an Online Subculture on Safer Schools

Elliot Rodger’s Online Life Provides a Glimpse at a Hateful Group of “Anti-Pick-up Artists” on Vice

IncelWiki

Incelsite

How ‘Incel’ Got Hijacked on Politico

The woman who founded the 'incel' movement on BBC

What Happens to Men Who Can't Have Sex in Elle

The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a global

misogynistic community - 2021 paper by Kelly Caroline Gothard

Incels: A Guide to Symbols and Terminology

Incels: A short guide for those teaching Year 10 and above

'Looksmaxxing': This incel uses a hammer to make his face 'more attractive' | The Secret World of Incels on CBC

Incel hits himself in face with hammer because he thinks it will improve looks

The Psychological Profile of INCELS by William Costello

Responding to the incel ideology on The Safeguarding Network

Yes, the incel community has a sexism problem, but we can do something about it on The Conversation

How do you deradicalise an incel? in Wired

CMV: The most effective way to fight against incel ideology Reddit post

How Do I Stop Being An Incel? on Paging Dr. NerdLove

Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Extremist Intentions: The Contingent Effects of Self-efficacy, Self-control and Law-related Morality - paper by Bettina Rottweiler and Paul Gill

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