menu_open Columnists
We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Online Losers Are Preying On Your Sons

2 8
previous day

This post is adapted from Mr. Right’s weekly newsletter, which tackles modern manhood for normal guys in a not-normal world. If you have not already subscribed for free, please consider doing so here

Mr. Incel is coming for your son. 

When I first learned what “incels” are, I was probably in my late teens, just getting started with my college years. They were an internet thing, seemingly a group of shitposters who couldn’t get laid and complained about women all day as a result. 

Over the years, media hysteria about the “incel threat” exploded to such a point that the term became an insult for anyone you don’t like, typically hoisted by women at men. The fundamental meaning, “involuntary celibate,” was lost to such a point that this group of men was no longer relevant. 

But now they’re back. In recent times I’ve seen conservative and lifestyle accounts increasingly interacting with a new “Incel” Twitter account that is spreading the group’s depressing, counterproductive messaging........

© The Daily Caller