InMemoriam
Celiacel
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Abstract
In recent years, the resistance to women’s rights
movements has started to shift from only being based
on gender roles and has started to take root in insecurity
and anxiety surrounding a dating life. This phenomenon
has been further exacerbated with the advent and
growth of the internet, where ideas are allowed to spread
across the world rapidly which has created online forums
where people known as incels gather.
In this paper, I ascertain that these online forums have a
broad incel culture and community founded on
victimhood and frustration and how they were formed as
a consequence of a well-intended action, then investigate
how language and terminology in various online spaces
affect different incel cultures and how that language has
created the “alpha/beta male”, “Chad”, “Stacy/Becky”,
and “nice guy” stereotypes, and then examine how incel
culture relates to broader issues such as mental health,
violence against women, homophobia, transphobia, and
ableism.
In recent years, the resistance to women’s rights
movements has started to shift from only being based
on gender roles and has started to take root in insecurity
and anxiety surrounding a dating life. This phenomenon
has been further exacerbated with the advent and
growth of the internet, where ideas are allowed to spread
across the world rapidly which has created online forums
where people known as incels gather.
In this paper, I ascertain that these online forums have a
broad incel culture and community founded on
victimhood and frustration and how they were formed as
a consequence of a well-intended action, then investigate
how language and terminology in various online spaces
affect different incel cultures and how that language has
created the “alpha/beta male”, “Chad”, “Stacy/Becky”,
and “nice guy” stereotypes, and then examine how incel
culture relates to broader issues such as mental health,
violence against women, homophobia, transphobia, and
ableism.