It was less strictly moderated than its counterpart, IncelSupport, which was also founded in the 2000s. The message board was founded in 2003 as a place for people who felt perpetually rejected or were extremely shy with potential partners to discuss their situations. She expressed regret at the change in usage from her original intent of creating an 'inclusive community' for people of all genders who were sexually deprived due to social awkwardness, marginalization, or mental illness. When she read about the 2014 Isla Vista killings, and that parts of the incel subculture glorified the perpetrator, she wrote: 'Like a scientist who invented something that ended up being a weapon of war, I can't uninvent this word, nor restrict it to the nicer people who need it'. Things have changed in the last 20 years'. That's a pretty sad version of this phenomenon that's happening today. In 2018, Alana said of her project: 'It definitely wasn't a bunch of guys blaming women for their problems. She stopped participating in her online project around 2000 and gave the site to a stranger. During her college years and after, Alana realized she was bisexual and became more comfortable with her identity.

In 1997, she started a mailing list on the topic that used the abbreviation INVCEL, later shortened to 'incel', for 'anybody of any gender who was lonely, had never had sex or who hadn't had a relationship in a long time'. Titled 'Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project', the website was used by people of all genders to share their thoughts and experiences. The first online community to use the term 'incel' was founded in 1993 a Canadian university student known only by her first name, Alana, created a website to discuss her sexual inactivity with others. 7.3 Of reporting and research on incels.7.2 Of platforms providing services to incel communities.Beginning in 2018, the incel ideology has increasingly been described as a terrorism threat, and a February 2020 attack in Toronto, Canada became the first instance of allegedly incel-related violence to be prosecuted as an act of terrorism. Incel communities have been criticized by researchers and the media for being misogynistic, encouraging violence, spreading extremist views, and radicalizing their members. Īt least eight mass murders, resulting in a total of 61 deaths, have been committed since 2014 by men who have either self-identified as incels or who had mentioned incel-related names and writings in their private writings or Internet postings. Estimates of the overall size of the subculture vary greatly, ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands of individuals. Incels are mostly male and heterosexual, and are often white. The American Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described the subculture as 'part of the online male supremacist ecosystem' that is included in their list of hate groups. Discussions in incel forums are often characterized by resentment and hatred, misogyny, misanthropy, self-pity and self-loathing, racism, a sense of entitlement to sex, and the endorsement of violence against women and sexually active people. For other uses, see Incel (disambiguation).Īn incel ( / ˈ ɪ n s ɛ l/ IN-sel, an abbreviation of ' involuntary celibate' ) is a member of an online subculture of people who define themselves as unable to get a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one.

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