"The incel movement (short for “involuntarily celibate”) movement has been linked to a recent mass killing, mainly of women, in Toronto.
On April 23, 25-year-old Alek Minassian drove a van through a suburban business district, killing eight women and two men and injuring 16 others.
He killed six people and injured 14 others before shooting himself.
Subsequently, his ravings on YouTube and in a 107,000-word manifesto in which he complains that he had been “forced to endure an existence of loneliness, rejection and unfulfilled desires all because girls have never been attracted to me”.
His sentiments seem to have struck a chord with other young men who rant on internet sites about their inability to have relationships with women.
Minassian even posted on Facebook that "the Incel Rebellion has already begun" shortly before his attack.
Incels are sexually frustrated men hostile toward sexually successful men and towards women.
These are called Brads and Staceys in incel jargon, words that suggest worldly, well-adjusted people who have no trouble getting mates.
What makes such a dark and destructive movement possible?...
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