Peer reviewed publication released based on incels.is website

[SubhumanCurrycel]

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10778012241279816

In this study, we analyzed the largest English language incel forum, incels.is. This forum contains over 25,275 members who have collectively written over 12 million posts (incels.is, 2024a)

We selected a three-month period to keep the amount of data manageable for qualitative analyses and to focus on recent conversations. We focused on the threads with the highest comment activity during the 3-month window to select threads that were popular and/or otherwise engaging to incels. We initially collected data in 2019 and after receiving additional funding, we decided to also collect data in 2022 to upscale our project. This data is part of a larger project on incels, which also involved downloading all comments made on incels.is between 2017 and 2024.

Only a matter of time before some academic journal or group archives every user and comment here for their “research” it’s so fucking over

In this paper, we are not just interested in how frequently incels discuss sexualized violence, we are concerned with how they rationalize sexualized violence. We argue that how incels talk about women, men, and gender relations is intimately tied to their discussions of gender-based violence. First, incels ubiquitously refer to women with degrading, demeaning, and misogynistic terms. We observed numerous instances wherein incels referred to women as “toilets,” “cum buckets,” “holes,” “sluts,” “whores” (see also Halpin et al., 2023). Incels also frequently refer to women as “roasties,” which is a misogynistic slur attached to the false belief that women's labia become elongated in relation to their number of sexual partners. “Foid” is the most popular of the many misogynistic terms that incels deploy against women and is a hallmark of incel discussions.

 

[Entschuldigung]

I care

 

[piec]

I care

cope nigger

 

[bourgeoizyzz]

over here we actually beat women

 

[FaceandBBC]

In New York City, in 2024, there were multiple reports of a man randomly punching women (Looker, 2024). In Sydney in 2024, a man who committed a mass stabbing attack appeared to have specifically targeted women (Turnbull, 2024). In Toronto, in 2020, a man murdered one woman and attacked another while using a sword covered in slogans from the incel community and shouting misogynistic phrases from that same community (Davies, 2023). How might we explain these seemingly random yet targeted attacks of women? In this article, we conceptualize and forward one potential explanation, as we argue that incels (and similar online communities) encourage, celebrate, and facilitate violence against women. We will refer to this encouragement of violence as stochastic gender-based violence.

Suspect that kills/ harms a woman = Incel

 

[N1666]

Suspect that kills/ harms a woman = Incel

That’s not what they are saying. The crimes they are referring to are specifically people who were connected to being an incel.

 

[psychomandible]

It's so over for me