the more you are surprised at human stupidity. Never knew these stupid folks existed.
Incels, Alek Minassian and the dangerous idea of being owed sex
A chilling Facebook message posted before a van plowed into a crowded Toronto sidewalk has raised the possibility the suspect in the attack nursed grudges against women. (April 25) AP
(Photo: Alexandra Newbould, AP)
Before Alek Minassian killed 10 people, the majority of them women, by driving his van into pedestrians on a Toronto street Monday, he posted on Facebook praising mass murderer Elliot Rodger and called for an "Incel Rebellion," an uprising of men who are angry women won't have sex with them.
Incel stands for "involuntary celibate," a term that proliferated on 4chan, an online message board that's frequently the source of harassment campaigns, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a watchdog of hate groups. The online forum Reddit also hosts incel communities. Last November, it shut down its "Incels" message board, which had 40,000 members, after numerous posts promoted rape and violence against women.
Rodger killed six people near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2014, and wrote a manifesto in which he blamed women for his loneliness, claiming: âI'm the perfect guy and yet you throw yourselves at these obnoxious men instead of me, the supreme gentleman."
"[Incels are] men who believe that women are withholding sex from them, and they are celibate not by choice but because of societal structures, or because of feminism or because of the evils of women," said Keegan Hankes, a senior intelligence analyst at SPLC. "It fits right into the ecosystem of the denigration of women as dumb, as tricksters, as horrible people that these men are the victims of."
Posts from self-identified incels range from self-pitying (many call themselves ugly or even subhuman) to misogynistic to violent.
"Some of them are there because they feel lonely, and they feel forsaken, they feel that no one wants to look at them, or be friends with them or attend to them, that no one's attracted to them â and that hurts," Judith Taylor, professor of sociology at University of Toronto, told the Associated Press. "Other people take it to another level, they talk about killing women, they talk about having sex with dead women. It can become very graphic and very toxic."
Entitled to sex
A common theme in incel threads is that women, or "Stacys," are shallow hypocrites for having sex with men with muscles or money, called "Chads," instead of ostensibly nice guys like them who need and deserve sex.
