
The Unchosen Ones | William Costello
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Incel Collective Misogyny
When I hear the word incel, though still, I just imagine an overwhelmingly right-wing, white, misogynistic, and leaning towards violence identity group. But surely they are pretty misogynistic. Yeah, certainly a lot of incel rhetoric online is deeply misogynistic. Now how much of it is trolling, shitposting as they describe almost like performance art? Some of it, if you spend any time on their forums, it's so hyperbolic,. It's like just untethered from reality that it's hard to even take seriously at times. We do know that unwanted celibacy ... is actually predictive of misogynistic attitudes among men.
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