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Incel fans of Alek Menassian, Toronto van killer, are changing their (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2018 OP
what is Incel? Takket Apr 2018 #1
Involuntary celibate. Eliot Rodgers killed a few people in California in 2014 applegrove Apr 2018 #2
good gravy. i'm sorry i asked Takket Apr 2018 #5
Men who women won't date but who feel entitled to the bodies of women who don't want them. Squinch Apr 2018 #3
Involuntary Celibates Loki Liesmith Apr 2018 #4
These guys spent their high school years glued to computers instead of going out and meeting kimbutgar Apr 2018 #6
They are more than that. There is obviously a major personality disorder applegrove Apr 2018 #7
Good point kimbutgar Apr 2018 #8
Yes. And there seems to be the type of narcisism where the object of applegrove Apr 2018 #9
They are each potential killers superpatriotman Apr 2018 #10

applegrove

(118,882 posts)
2. Involuntary celibate. Eliot Rodgers killed a few people in California in 2014
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 09:18 PM
Apr 2018

because women would not date him. Menassian mentioned him in his last post before mowing people down.

Squinch

(51,080 posts)
3. Men who women won't date but who feel entitled to the bodies of women who don't want them.
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 09:19 PM
Apr 2018

It stands for "involuntary celibate."

I'm not kidding.

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)
4. Involuntary Celibates
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 09:20 PM
Apr 2018

Men who consider themselves too ugly or defective personally to ever have sex.


They refer to “normal” men and women as “chads” and “Stacies”. And they hate them for being able to get laid.

kimbutgar

(21,258 posts)
6. These guys spent their high school years glued to computers instead of going out and meeting
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 09:26 PM
Apr 2018

Women and learning how to interact with them. Now they are socially awkward and sexually repressed.

applegrove

(118,882 posts)
7. They are more than that. There is obviously a major personality disorder
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 09:31 PM
Apr 2018

in them too. Lots of people are celibate and awkward and don't murder dozens or support someone who did. There is an element of entitlement which seems narcissistic to me. Also misogyny. Psychopaths sometimes have sex issues and misogyny. And of course not knowing how to act if they have no feeling for getting along.

applegrove

(118,882 posts)
9. Yes. And there seems to be the type of narcisism where the object of
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 09:39 PM
Apr 2018

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'their affections' doesn't have the rights to turn them down. A healthy person looking for love and not finding it would work on themselves. These guys seem entitled to not have to work on themselves. And so they find each other in this social website world.

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