RT Article
T1 The Emergence of the Incel Community as a Misogyny-Motivated Terrorist Threat
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 37
IS 3
SP 369
OP 385
A1 Lockyer, Demeter
A2 Halpin, Michael
A2 Maguire, Finlay
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1922492167
AB The incel (involuntary celibate) community is characterized by misogynistic beliefs surrounding women and a fatalistic outlook on society. Incels have committed, or have attempted to commit, several acts of mass violence globally, which suggests they are an emerging terror threat. In this study, we discuss how incels position their violence as ideological terrorism, how this violence is tied to misogyny despite incels’ additional targeting of non-women, and finally, the extent to which incels are, or at least claim to be, anti-violence or otherwise non-violent. To do this, we inductively analysed over 1000 comments from a popular incel forum, Incels.is, detailing how incels discuss three mass-murderers associated with the incel community: Elliot Rodger, Alek Minassian, and Jake Davison. Through revealing the ways incels discuss these three men, we conclude that incels view their own violence as terrorism with ideological aims, thus qualifying the community as a terrorist threat.
K1 Anti-feminism
K1 ideological violence
K1 violent misogyny
K1 Terrorism
K1 Incels
DO 10.1080/09546553.2023.2296515