WaPO - Online Incel Movement becoming more violent and extreme

(TW: rape, violence, pedophilia)

Excerpt:

"According to the CCDH [Center for Countering Digital Hate] analysis, members of the forum post about rape every 29 minutes, and more than 89 percent of posters support rape and say it’s acceptable. The CCDH analysis also found that posters on the forum are seeking to normalize child rape. More than a quarter of members of the forum have posted pedophilia keywords, the analysis found, and more than half of the members of the forum support pedophilia.

...[YouTube] isn’t the only inroad, the analysis found. Galante and Small have created a network of seemingly more mainstream websites that funnel people to the incel forum. Google searches for body image or unemployment frequently return links to these “incelosphere” sites, the CCDH found.

Teenage boys are among the forum’s most active and extreme users, according to the CCDH. In one instance, a boy who said he was 17 was recorded as being on the forum for an average of 10 hours per day during the period of the report, posting an average of 40 times per day, the report said. Another, who claimed to be 15, spent an average of five hours per day on the site, posting repeatedly about his desire to commit a mass shooting."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/22/incels-rape-murder-study/

My commentary:

Color me completely unsurprised men are going off the rails given what I've personally experienced in my dating life, and from everything you ladies have said on FDS...however, I was really sad and disturbed to read that teen boys are the most active users--did anyone ever tell these kids it's normal to not have sex as a teen? At least it was where I grew up...the sexually active teens were the outliers. The rest of us were super awkward and more interested in our sports or clubs or friends, possibly some hand holding, awkward kissing, or grinding at school dances 😂

I feel like these boys are being emotionally and mentally stunted and brainwashed into this hatred and social dysfunction before they even get a chance to grow up...these websites--along with the illusions and delusions of average male sexual desirability and female promiscuity brought by 24/7 streaming pornography--are just feeding and amplifying normal teenage angst and fear about not fitting in, and making it seem like it's going to be a permanent feature of their lives instead of a passing phase. Of course, by listening to these incel-idiots...those young men will make their outcast status a permanent reality. Which is exactly what seems to be happening.