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“Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believe works in his favour is actually hopelessly stacked against him. Everything from our government to our wider society, is designed to promote women over men. The myth of male privilege, so the story goes...”

Book:Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About

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Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About

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Laura Bates

Laura Bates is a British writer known for her advocacy for gender equality and against sexual harassment. Born on August 27, 1986, she gained widespread attention for founding the 'Everyday Sexism' website, which documents the experiences of women worldwide with gender discrimination. more

“by] torture for the rest of their slutty lives.” The sad truth is that, like many oppressors, incels perceive themselves as being the vulnerable ones. They feel like the true victims, even as they lash out violently against others. And they feel they are in the right, even as they commit the most deplorable acts of wrongdoing.”

Sexism Incels

Book:Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

Source: Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

“Part of him had dreaded seeing Elena again and yet he couldn't keep away. He hadn't been able to bring himself to look at her at first, because he knew that Raoul had had the pleasure of her. He had wanted to punish her, make her the whore she was, but now that it had happened, he was terrified of seeing that look of hardness in her eyes, that loss of innocence that had still remained even after Athan had bedded her. He wanted to seize her and shake her until she told him every single filthy thing that she and Raoul had done together. He wanted to know in each minute detail how she had looked when Raoul had touched her, what she had said, what she'd thought, what she felt.”

Chad Incels Involuntary Celibate Elliot Rodger Stacy

Book:The Gallows Curse

Source: The Gallows Curse

“Incels are not amoral (though they are, of course, highly immoral); they are deep believers in a specific moral order. They feel not merely angry but aggrieved; they are not merely disappointed but resentful. They feel not merely let down but positively betrayed, by women in particular and by the world in general. They feel that the world owes them certain favors.”

Sexism Misogyny Entitlement Incels

Author:Kate Manne

“If there is a certain sincerity and ethics in a dissociated life lived with self-awareness, it is because hypocrisy and deception dwell in the falsely coherent life.”