Ideally, incels would be able to have access to women’s bodies whenever without any backlash-or input from women. As is consistent with men’s rights activism, incels think feminism and women’s sexual liberation is a net negative because women are not choosing to have sex with them. They portray women as shallow, brainless beings who would never look beyond appearances. This is because incels think women only care about a man’s appearance. They believe that no amount of self-improvement, mentally or physically, will improve their prospects. The incel ideology follows as such: Incels believe that they are irredeemably ugly and that is why they cannot have sexual or romantic relationships. r/incels has countless posts objectifying and vilifying women, yet these same men writing these posts desperately want to have sex with the women they hate-because they barely view women as more than sex objects, and more often, antagonists to their goal of sex. Therein lies the irony of the incel community. Though all Manosphere constituents believe that women should not be superior or even equal to men, and that they may even be subhuman, incels specifically believe that all women are vapid and only care about looks. While many people of all genders may fit this category, predominantly heterosexual male incels that frequent the subreddit are almost all agree that the world (women) owes them sex and that they are oppressed for being sexless men, classic MRA beliefs (Anjani 2011). Incels, while a fraction of the Manosphere, have a unique online community with distinct language and beliefs (Lilly 2016).Īccording to the r/incels, an incel is at least 21 years of age and has gone six months without a romantic partner not of their own volition.
All these subreddits are only about five years old at the most, but they are generating massive amounts of MRA content, generating a subcultural lingo, and facilitating daily discourse.
Most of these groups reside in namesake subreddit forums (r/TheRedPill, r/MGTOW, r/incels, etc.) where members can post both links and discussion threads. There are many subgroups: pickup artists, Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW, or straight men refusing to be involved with women), “ red pillers” (a The Matrix reference in which the “red pill” is knowing that women rule over men), “ incels” (involuntary celibates who believe women are shallow and do not date “ugly” men), traditional MRAs, and more. The Manosphere’s boundaries and composition are vague and ever-shifting. MRAs use The Matrix red pill as a metaphor for awareness of misandry, despite the movie’s Marxist themes and its trans female directors Welcome to the Manosphere, a diffuse online network of blogs, subreddits, Facebook groups, forums, and more dedicated to rejecting feminism in favor of “men’s rights.” Thanks to the Internet, the Manosphere is global, and most members never meet each other, but it is massive and rapidly growing (Poland 2016). Historically, MRM has been a relatively fringe movement, but it has proliferated recently due to the Internet’s unprecedented capability to collect like-minded individuals in a forum to discuss their perceived grievances on a large scale. Men’s rights activists (MRAs) have formed coalitions around issues such as false rape accusations, circumcision, custody battles, and abortion. The men’s rights movement (MRM) is inherently reactionary in nature, arguing concepts like reverse sexism. However, from feminism’s beginnings, certain groups of men have been arguing that maybe men, not women, are society’s real victims (Gilmore 2001). Commodification, Diffusion, and Defusionįeminism has afforded women more rights and agency over the past several decades.Mapping the Landscape of Sexual Deviance.Toggle navigation Subcultures and Sociology Grinnell College
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