The impact of Incels on Young Women and the Public Debate?

The impact of Incels on Young Women and the Public Debate?

Philosophy

This paper focuses on the potential impact of the online presence of incels on young women.

Viviane Pizem

2024

This paper focuses on the potential impact of the online presence of incels on young women. It aims to highlight the existing gap in feminist literature on incels: the research tends to focus on the members of the group and the group itself but does not sufficiently address the impact of the inceldom on online social discourse, and its potentially pervasive role in widening the existing gap between young men and women’s societal views. The paper first offers a critique of the use of the Beauvoirian other (Melo Lopez, 2023), then evaluates how incels are perceived in society. Finally the paper puts forward how women expressed their distrust in men through the men vs bear debate that took place on social media in the summer 2024.

Incels, Misogyny, Gendered Violence, Social Discourse, Stochastic Terrorism, South Korea, Feminism