These are
“tens of thousands of young men who represent themselves as disadvantaged by nature, who are ignored and refused sex by women.” According to published studies, Dupuis-Déri adds, these young men are
“strongly misogynistic, many of them openly incite rape with impunity on the discussion forums of their online community, and idealise mass murders, some of which have been perpetrated by men who openly declare themselves members of the incel movement. Not to mention explicit references to Nazism.”
Stephanie Lamy is a French researcher and author of
La terreur masculiniste ("Masculinist Terror",
Editions du détour), a text in which she analyses and maps the different types of masculinist and anti-feminist movements and their modes of operation.
As Lamy explains, incels are only one part of a much larger movement, though they are often the most visible and recognisable part when it comes to media coverage:
“Especially in France, we know that incels generate a form of violence that is more easily recognisable as something that could disturb public order from a state security perspective. Added to this is the sociology of incels, who are mostly young men.” Furthermore, Lamy adds,
“this allows older men to ‘other’ them, distancing themselves performatively from sexism, misogyny and masculinist discourse that they may themselves adhere to.”
France is a particularly interesting case here, because – albeit slowly and sporadically – dots are being connected between specific events that trace a line of masculinist radicalism that could indicate a trail for other European countries to follow.
For example, on 16 February 2025, a 17-year-old boy broadcast a video live on TikTok in which he threatened to attack women with a knife.
The content was reported, which allowed law enforcement to intervene, as Lamy writes in Mediapart. “The prosecutor of Annecy (south-east France) published a statement on X at 17:46, confirming that the alleged perpetrator was linked to the incel movement. She also revealed the charges brought against him, namely: direct incitement to commit an act of terrorism using an online public communication service, death threats against individuals and apology for terrorism.”
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, following the UK into pure retardation as we, though once again mostly Westerners, struggle with the erosion of our international standing and desperately try to find something to occupy our minds with to not have to face reality.
