Lorelei Weldon
1 min readMay 31, 2023

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Except that this group mostly doesn't adjust. They spend time every day in online chat rooms egging each other on to fantasize on and sometimes act out violence against women, who they consider to be subhuman. More than 100 deaths (mostly of women) have been attributed to incels in the past 10 years.

This is not just a fringe sect of a few lonely weirdos. It's a terrifying violent movement of men who are actively being recruited into the hatred and dehumanization of women and it's not a small movement. We can have compassion for the miserable lives that drove them to try to find some sort of community, but beyond that, they are horrifying in their views.

"First, there is the notion that women are dehumanized objects: subhumans who are either too evil or too stupid to deserve to make decisions about their own lives and bodies. This idea promotes a complete disconnection from the idea of women as people who are capable of suffering, grieving, enjoying sexual pleasure, or making rational decisions. This dehumanization is essential to the justification of other incel fantasies, like the mandated redistribution of sex, the keeping of women as sexual slaves, or the widespread massacre of women and girls. A thread titled “Should Women Be Considered Human?” attracted lengthy debate, most of it coming to the conclusion that they should not."

Bates, Laura. Men Who Hate Women (pp. 38-39). Sourcebooks. Kindle Edition.

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Lorelei Weldon
Lorelei Weldon

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