Ep 30: What is Incel?
The gunman who killed five people in a mass shooting in Plymouth ranted at a 16-year-old girl that “women are arrogant and entitled beyond belief” in some of his final online exchanges just a few days before he embarked on Britain’s worst mass shooting in more than a decade.
Jake Davison, 22, told a US teenager on a subreddit forum that he was “bitter and jealous” and that women “treat men with zero respect or even view them as human beings”.
In the online messages posted days before he killed five people, including his mother and a three-year-old girl, Davison’s adherence to “incel” culture is starkly evident.
Incels – involuntary celibate men – are members of misogynistic online groups who blame women for their sexual failings.
In this episode of Safeguarding days, we are going to explore INCEL – what is it, and what can we do in education to raise staff awareness?
Involuntary celibates, known as Incels are members of an online subculture who define themselves as unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one.