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I Joined a Popular Incel Forum — Here’s What They Really Think of Women
It’s much, much worse than I expected
I wanted to do this for a while now.
And so, a month ago, I submitted a registration form under a male pseudonym to a popular incel forum.
It’s just one of many other online platforms created by and for men who describe themselves as ‘involuntary celibate’ that exist within the so-called ‘manosphere.’
I was accepted to become a member after a couple of weeks.
And then I began lurking around, scrolling through thousands of their posts and discussions and joining different chatrooms to find out what’s really going on in the mind of an average incel and what they think about women.
It was bad. Really bad.
And much worse than I initially imagined.
Here’s what I discovered.
Everything and anything is a women’s fault
You probably first heard about incels in 2014.
This is when a 22-year-old self-described incel — Elliot Rodger — went on a stabbing and shooting spree in Isla Vista, California. He was then quickly dubbed ‘the king of incels’ by the online incel community, which was still…
