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Understanding incel culture – and how schools can address it

Incels, or involuntary celibates, are members of an online subculture, most often heterosexual men, who believe they have been unconditionally excluded from the dating scene. This has negative implications for their mood and self-esteem, as well as the women and girls they grow to resent.

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Inside the Manosphere director: 'This is the mainstream now'

Director Adrian Choa on incels, criticism of the show and why the pendulum just might be about to swing back

Evening Standard

29 Ex Incels Share What Made Them Change Their Ways: “Desperately Lonely”

Young men can easily fall into the trap of toxic male communities nowadays. Incel spaces are no different, as research suggests that between 60,000 and 100,000 young men are active on incel forums. These are the men who have snapped out of it and changed their lives for the better,…

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77 Involuntary Celibates Who Ended Up As The Saddest Clowns On The Internet (New Pics)

Incels are people who often gather online to blame, objectify, and insult women and girls and spiral into long rants about how they’ve been dealt a bad genetic hand. They have their own vocabulary, and sometimes their rants can turn into actual violence and spill into the real world. See…

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What is the 80/20 rule from Netflix's Adolescence and how does it relate to incels?

In hit Netflix series Adolescence, its characters mention the incel ‘80/20 rule’. But what does this mean?

Evening Standard

Here's How Police Are Being Trained To Deal With Incels

The Department of Homeland Security is watching men who are mad they can’t get girlfriends.

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Why we need to approach masculinism as a terrorist threat - Q&A with Stephanie Lamy

Masculinism is on the rise. In the age of the internet, male influencers such as Andrew Tate preaching the belief that men should have more rights, power, and opportunities than women have a bigger platform than ever. So widespread has the phenomenon become that in July the British Police said…

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With Mike Johnson, incels seize the GOP

The Louisiana congressman's career has been centered around his bitter obsession with other people's sex lives

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David Fincher says he’s ‘not responsible’ for incels misinterpreting Fight Club

Filmmaker admitted movie has become a ‘touchstone’ for the far right

The Independent UK

After Samuel L. Jackson Supported Marvel’s Brie Larson Dealing With ‘Incels,’ She Supported The Secret Invasion Star Right Back

Brie Larson posted a heartwarming message on social media following Samuel L. Jackson's support against online hate following her Marvel casting.

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

A judge in Ontario’s Superior Court has ruled that a 2020 attack on a Toronto massage parlour was an incel-inspired act of terror. This is the first time that an incel-related crime has been labelled a terror offence.

The Conversation

What is an incel? Secondary schools in England tackle ‘incel’ culture with new guidance

Police previously stated the movement is not “currently considered a terrorist ideology” but has the “ability to inspire terrible acts of violence”

Evening Standard

What is an incel and how to recognise the language as Hollyoaks storyline comes to dramatic end

AWALT, Chad, Femoid and Stacey are some of the terms popular with incels

Manchester Evening News

Andrew Tate, incels and the manosphere - how the internet is radicalising young men

Andrew Tate is known as one of the prominent faces of the ‘manosphere’

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Probing the mind of an incel

Researchers sought to determine whether experiencing unwanted celibacy is linked to misogyny among men

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Deplatforming online extremists reduces their followers – but there's a price

Conspiracy theorist and US far-right media personality Alex Jones was recently ordered to pay US$45 million (£37 million) damages to the family of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.

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The Joker Sequel Release Date And Trailer Are Out, In Happy News For Incels Everywhere

Nothing decent can exist on its own and if it can make money then it must!

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