It just displaces the problem, and it does little to tackle the underlying motivation," Dr. "Being punitive in and of itself isn't going to work. Whilst we need to change the ways incels operate - we have to drive social change to stop these views from forming in the first place, Dr. Their ways of thinking are not innate, of course, but stem from societal beliefs about masculinity, manhood, domination, and women as inferiors. We need accountability for those who violate boundaries and expectations - but we also need to have hard conversations that challenge their ways of thinking and work towards some kind of restoration." Secondly, we need offender accountability. "We need some survivor-centered strategies wherein we can listen to and learn from those who have been hurt and harmed by these communities. Marganski advocates a more nuanced approach. He killed six people and injured 14 before turning his gun on himself in a mass shooting outside a sorority house at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2014.īut Dr. Genco was inspired by Elliot Rodger - the misogynist killer who became the first hero of the incel movement. Genco's 'manifesto' against women was entitled 'Isolated' Active support needs to be given before it is too late for these men. Alison Marganski, a criminologist and sociologist at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, told Insider. There are call to banish the sprawling incel online culture but to prevent their toxic masculinty turning lethal these people need help, Dr. It often indicates a user profile.Īs this underworld comes to the surface - as it has done in the terrifying events led by Davidson and Genco - we need to confront the impulses behind this most extreme form of toxic masculinity.īorn in the USA, the incel community numbers hundreds of thousands worldwide, according tosaid Laura Bates, who researched incel culture while researching her book Men Who Hate Women, quoted in The Guardian. If you want to know more about the incel subculture, listen to the CBC podcast about the Toronto Van Attack, I found it much more enlightening.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Frankly though, to me it feels irresponsible to spend so much time in the subculture without directly addressing the fact that it has spawned domestic terrorism. One could argue that this film is about the less extreme members of the community, and that the hateful acts of extreme factions are for another movie. The perpetrator was a member of the incel community, and he and other domestic terrorists like him have been idolized in some incel circles since. At one point, we see a brief clip from the Toronto Van Attack (an act of misogynist terrorism that took place in Canada's largest city in 2018), but its roots in incel fora are not explained at all. This is probably true of many, maybe even most, but it still misses an important fact. You get the impression that the incel community is mostly a place for commiseration and that those within it eventually graduate to more typical lives. That may be the best approach for reconciling these sorts of men with society, but it means that we end up with a fairly shallow look into the subculture that only briefly references the hate and extremism it has generated. Personally, I felt that the misogyny and racism were brushed off too easily in favour of humanising the subjects. They do offer some insightful thoughts about consumer culture and the way young men are expected to behave in our society, but the men also spread some blatantly misogynistic or racist ideology, the latter presented caged in a flimsy veneer of "satire" (a term which those in the subculture misinterpret to mean transgressing for the sake of transgressing, rather than using irony to make a larger point). Instead, we are presented with a collage of clips platforming the subjects' ideas. It is novel that this documentary follows a few men in the incel subculture over a period of a few years, but the film is mostly lacking narrative or statement.
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