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Extremist Profile: Male
Supremacy: A hateful ideology advocating for the
subjugation of women
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Definition
Incels (a portmanteau of involuntary celibates) are members
of an online subculture who define themselves as unable to
find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one, a
state they describe as inceldom. Self-identified incels are
mostly white, male, and heterosexual. Discussions in incel
forums are often characterized by resentment, misanthropy,
self-pity, self-loathing, misogyny, racism, a sense of
entitlement to sex, and the endorsement of violence against
sexually active people. The Southern Poverty Law Center
described the subculture as "part of the online male
supremacist ecosystem" that is included in their list of
hate groups. People who have either self-identified as
incels or who had mentioned incel-related names and writings
in their private writings or Internet postings have
committed at least four mass murders in North America,
resulting in forty-five deaths. Incel communities have been
criticized by the media and researchers for being
misogynist, encouraging violence, as well as spreading
extremist views and radicalizing their members.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel
Male
Supremacy
Male supremacy is a hateful ideology advocating for the
subjugation of women.
Male supremacy misrepresents all women as genetically
inferior, manipulative and stupid and reduces them to their
reproductive or sexual function — with sex being
something that they owe men and that can or even should be
coerced out of them. Driven by a biological analysis of
women as fundamentally inferior to men, male supremacists
malign women specifically for their gender. A thinly veiled
desire for the domination of women and a conviction that the
current system oppresses men in favor of women are the
unifying tenets of the male supremacist worldview.
In their own words
“Pussy is the only real empowerment women will ever
know. Put all the hopelessly wishful thinking of feminist
ideology aside and what remains is the fact that it is men
and pretty much men only who draw power from accomplishment,
who invent technology, build nations, cure disease, create
empires and generally advance civilization. Women whether
acknowledging it makes us feel warm and fuzzy or not, depend
on men for all of that and the only tool they have at their
disposal to have any sort of influence on any of it is the
power of pussy and pussy is powerful indeed…Sexual
robotics may well prove to be the best thing that ever
happened to women from the standpoint of their humanity....
what would that do to the vast majority of women who would
suddenly have to prove their worth as human beings beyond
simply being the owners of said pussy." — Paul Elam, An
Ear for Men, Sex Robots: Part 3 - Disempowering Pussy,
October 2017
"Women, please listen to Whoopi Goldberg. If you
don’t want to be slapped, backhanded, punched in the
mouth, decked or throttled keep your stinking hands off of
other people. A man hitting you back after you have
assaulted him does not make you a victim of domestic
violence. It makes you a recipient of justice. Deal with
it." — Paul Elam, October is the Fifth Annual Bash a
Violent Bitch Month, “A Voice for Men,” September
2015
"We've shouted endlessly at a deaf world that we were on
the path to destruction, and we have watched our predictions
of men being reduced to indentured servants to a malicious
matriarchy come true, even as society continues to dismiss
and humiliate us for speaking." — Paul Elam on Men's
News Daily site, quoted in Angry White Men
“Make rape legal if done on private property. I
propose that we make the violent taking of a woman not
punishable by law when done off public grounds….If rape
becomes legal under my proposal, a girl will protect her
body in the same manner that she protects her purse and
smartphone…. After several months of advertising this
law throughout the land, rape would be virtually eliminated
on the first day it is applied.” — Roosh V.,
“How to Stop Rape,” Return Of Kings, February
2015
“No means no — until it means yes.” —
Roosh V., 30 Bangs, March 2012
“If a girl is in favor of abortion, there is evil
dwelling in her soul. If you let her into your life, she
will do her best to ruin you and bring you down to her
level…If a girl is so revolted by a lifeform that is
genetically 50 percent her that she’ll go to Planned
Parenthood to get it flushed out, she will treat everyone
else in her life with the same level of cruelty.”
— Matt Forney, “Why You Should Shun Girls Who
Support Abortion, Return of Kings,” August 2016
“No functioning, healthy society would allow
Pulse—or the kinds of men who frequented it—to
exist…. No healthy society would mourn their passing.
Indeed, depending on your perspective, Mateen was just
taking out the trash, eliminating societal parasites via
natural selection…. When a man and a woman are
attracted to one another, they are seeing the continuation
of their tribe and the formation of the next generation...
Babies are produced by heterosexual relationships; all homo
relationships ever produce is cum.” — Matt Forney,
“The Orlando Nightclub Shooting and the Moral Sickness
of Whites,” Matt Forney blog, June 2017
“Women should be terrorized by their men; it’s
the only thing that makes them behave better than
chimps.” — Matt Forney under the pseudonym
Ferdinand Bardamu, “The Necessity of Domestic
Violence,” In Mala Fide blog, 2012
Background
Male supremacy was fundamental to the foundation of the
racist “alt-right,” and in many ways served as its
“gateway drug.” It is characterized by angry rants
blaming feminism for the decline of Western civilization and
deriding feminists as “Social Justice Warriors."
Personalities like "alt-right" facilitator Milo
Yiannopoulos, conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, pick-up
artist Roosh V. (a.k.a. Daryush Valizadeh) and Return of
Kings and altright.com writer Matt Forney also constantly
straddle the line between more formal “alt-right”
circles and the male supremacist world.
Though male supremacy lives in a coalition of online
spaces, its most established proponents are two hate groups:
A Voice for Men, a men’s rights website started by the
violently bigoted Paul Elam, who has described men as
“indentured servants to a malicious matriarchy,”
regularly talks about the world as gripped by
“misandry” (hatred of men) and called for October
to be renamed the “Bash-A-Violent-Bitch Month.”
The other is Return of Kings, founded by pick-up artist
Roosh V., who advocated for the legalization of rape on
private property (then claiming unconvincingly it was
satire) and wrote that the path to saving Western
civilization is repealing women’s suffrage.
On these websites, much like on myriad subreddits,
forums, 4chan and 8chan threads where male supremacists
gather, the harassment of women is encouraged. In fact, this
is sometimes a stated objective: in Paul Elam’s words:
“the progress we need will only be realized by
inflicting enough pain on the agents of hate, in public
view, that it literally shocks society out of its current
coma” — or, in other terms, “rattle the cage
of feminists.”
Gross mischaracterizations of all women are the
bread-and-butter of male supremacist websites. Roosh
regularly depicts women as manipulative, fickle liars with
no life, who have to be battled and conquered, writing that
the “only reason very few girls are seen as losers is
because they have a pussy, and just about all pussies feel
good, regardless of who it’s attached to.”
Similarly, Elam has declared that sexual robotics would
force the “vast majority of women [to] suddenly
have to prove their worth as human beings beyond simply
being the owners of said pussy.”
Male supremacy is an ideology with many faces. Its
unifying thread is virulent, at times violent misogyny, and
the practice of blaming women and a large feminist
conspiracy for the ills of (mostly white) men today. Like
other hate groups, male supremacist hate groups propagate
conspiracies that see the world as a matriarchy propped up
by “cultural Marxism” meant to eradicate or
subjugate men. It is driven by the belief that men are
entitled to a superior place in society than women, which
are biologically and intellectually inferior — as a
result, any advancement that women might have obtained is
nothing more than a usurpation. Like white supremacy, male
supremacy is driven by fear and anger at the loss of white
male status.
There are different paths and constituencies in male
supremacist movements: between men’s rights activists
whose focus appears to be defending the rights of men, all
the while decrying their infringement by women; Red Pillers,
who claim to be the only ones aware of the existence of a
feminist conspiracy running society; pick-up artists, whose
goal is to lure women into sleeping with them, while
constantly debasing them; involuntary celibates (or incels),
who, having failed to find women either willing to have or
to be coerced into sex, turn their anger into calls of
violence; and men going their own way (MGTOW), who present
themselves as male separatists and have chosen to remove
themselves from the negative influence of women
entirely.
History: the men’s
rights movement
The respectably named men’s rights movement has
roots in the “men’s liberation” movement that
emerged in the 1970s, which embraced female liberation and
its critique of gender roles. The movement sought to free
men from the constraints associated with the male gender
role, which removed men from the home, precluded male
emotional intimacy and made men their family’s
exclusive provider.
In the late 1980s and 1990s, however, as recorded by the
sociologist Michael Kimmel in his book Angry White
Men, this critique of the traditional male role
“morphed into a celebration of all things masculine and
a near infatuation with the traditional masculine role
itself.” The problem was no longer oppressive gender
roles: “The problem was, in a word, women — or
more accurately, women’s equality, women’s
empowerment, and feminism.”
As women gained ground in the workplace and family
structures loosened, some men’s rights activists
started blaming feminism for all of men’s ills, whether
real or imagined. The traditional masculine role was seen as
either worth reestablishing, or, rather than being limiting
to both genders, actually benefiting women. Men’s
rights activists decided to blame women (where others blamed
minorities or immigrants) for taking away jobs, for the
decline of the family, or for alimony and child custody
issues after a divorce, rather than focusing on larger
political and structural issues. The father’s rights
movement served as a common entry-point into the men’s
rights movement and its focus on domestic abuse: large
portions of the movement were based on resentment of women
and sustained by junk psychiatry, debunked statistics as
well as anecdotal evidence, as was recorded by Pam
Chamberlain in a 2011 report for Political Research
Associates.
The father of the Men’s Rights Movement, Warren
Farrell, gave voice to those feelings of male oppression in
his 1993 bestseller, The Myth of Male Power, which has since
become the bible of the Men’s Rights Movement. A former
National Organization for Women board member who used to rub
shoulders with prominent feminists like Gloria Steinem,
Farrell, after his divorce, declared men were as oppressed
as women, if not more.
Though claiming to be equally dedicated to the liberation
of both men and women, Farrell, in a section of the book
called men the new “nigger” with the male role
“akin to the field slave — or the second class
slave” and the female role “akin to the house
slave — the first class slave.” The book drew
equivalences between “slaves g[iving] up their
seats for whites” and “men g[iving] up
their seats for women,” and paying child custody and
“taxation without representation.” Women, Farrell
decried, had become too powerful and dangerous because, on
top of holding sexual power over men, they could then lead
to men’s downfall with accusations of sexual harassment
and assault.
While some corners of the men’s rights movement
focused on legitimate grievances (male homelessness and
rates of suicide, male conscription, lack of male shelters
for domestic violence victims or some discrepancies in the
family court system around the issue of child custody and
alimony) to draw in followers, it then oriented those
followers to who they believed was the root cause of all
these issues: women, aided by a large feminist
conspiracy.
The men’s rights movement lives in a
pseudo-academic, seemingly respectable bubble, using
litigation to challenge female-only spaces or defend men
accused of campus sexual assault though airing more
disturbing ideas behind the scene. Often, these men’s
rights advocacy groups, like the National Coalition for Men
(NCFM), founded in 1977, and on whose board of advisors
Farrell sits, distort or cherry-pick statistics to indicate
female privilege, blame
women or create false equivalences between the
oppression of men and of women, rather than simply seek to
advance the cause of men and fathers. Groups like NCFM
use
litigation to challenge what they perceived as
discrimination in favor of women and try
to influence policy on domestic violence, sexual
assault, divorce and custody cases. In reality, they
offered
little help to men other than blaming women or
advocating to deny women the structures that they did have
to resort to discrimination or violence — one of the
biggest grievances of the men’s rights movement, for
instance, is the Violence Against Women Act in 1994.
The men’s rights movement has a dedicated
international following, including in the United Kingdom and
in Australia. Women, too, have helped give the men’s
rights movement a veneer of even-handedness. Prominent MRAs
also include anti-feminist
female voices, such as popular Canadian YouTube
personality Karen Straughan, American psychologist Helen
Smith, and the former head of a domestic-violence shelter
for women, the British Erin Pizzey. Men’s rights issues
also overlap with the
rhetoric of equity feminists like Christina Hoff
Sommers, who give a mainstream and respectable face to some
MRA concerns.
Most recently, Cassie Jaye, an American documentary
filmmaker became a men’s rights activist after
producing The Red Pill documentary, a foray into the world
of men’s rights activists. As David Futrelle, who
monitors the manosphere on his blog “We Hunted the
Mammoth”, decried, Jaye
accepted funding directly from MRAs, notably taking
money from Paul Elam and from regulars of the violently
anti-woman The Red Pill subreddit, a
misogynistic forum on Reddit. The misogynistic
conspiracy theorist, Mike Cernovich, donated $10,000 to
become an associate producer. The documentary, which sees
Jaye interviewing MRAs and never challenging them on their
myriad of misogynistic positions, sparked outrage in
Australia. A campaign denouncing it as “misogynistic
propaganda” succeeded in getting the film dropped by an
Australian cinema. In the US, The Village Voice reportedly
refused to run paid ads for the film in its paper.
Prominently featured in the film is rape apologist Paul
Elam, the founder of one of the most virulent misogynistic
websites feeding the men’s rights activist movement, A
Voice for Men (AVFM). It publishes a plethora of writers
decrying feminism and blaming women for a diversity of ills,
often with violent rhetoric. Elam, one of the most public
faces of the men’s rights movement, is most famously
known for declaring October
to be “Bash a Violent Bitch month” — he later
called the piece satirical but has been republishing it
every October with equally violent introductions. He
has claimed that were he to serve on a jury for a men
accused of rape, he would automatically declare the
defendant not guilty, regardless of the facts of the
case.
Founded in 2009, AVFM and its podcast “Ear for
Men” combines men’s rights issues and rabidly
misogynistic and violent rhetoric. Elam’s writing
and interventions make no mystery of his delight in
violent fantasies against women. In 2011, A Voice for Men
launched Register-Her, a website
listing women alongside their picture who they argued belong
in prison (the website has since been taken down). It
included
women deemed to have falsely accused men of rape or
domestic violence, others for having protested men’s
rights activist gatherings, or those Elam simply disagreed
with. The effect of Register-Her was an explosion of online
harassment. After finding herself targeted, feminist writer
Jessica Valenti was forced to leave her home in fear of her
safety. Elam, catering to these hordes of harassers, had no
qualms egging them on.
Elam remains at the center of the contemporary men’s
rights movement, however: he hosts the yearly international
conference on men’s issues bringing together men’s
rights activists from various countries. He is also a close
friend and protégé of Warren Farrell. Elam has
defended his foulest writings as ways to bring attention to
the men’s rights issues that AVFM features. And though
Farrell himself told Mother Jones that harassment and
violent rhetoric made him uncomfortable, he
too asserted that they were strategically necessary:
“I’ve seen how Martin Luther King
alone was dismissed. It took Stokely Carmichael and
Eldridge Cleaver to say things that were pretty
ridiculous in some ways, but that brought the attention
that led to Martin Luther King being seen as the nice,
centered, balanced person.”
Roosh, pick up artists and the red pill
One of the defining strands of online male supremacist
movements is pick-up artistry. Pick Up Artists (PUA) have
focused on teaching men how to manipulate women into sex,
all the while constantly disparaging women and the idea of
consent.
The most prominent PUA is Roosh V. who has called for the
legalization of rape on private property on his popular
website, Return of Kings, founded in October 2012. Roosh has
repeatedly boasted of raping women in his Bang books,
accounts of which were collected by David Futrelle on his
website, We Hunted the Mammoth. A website festering with
misogyny and incitements to rape, Return of King headlines
have included “When Her No Means Yes,” “The
Intellectual Inferiority of Women,” “Why Women
Shouldn’t Work” or “Don’t Let Your
Girlfriends Have Homosexual Friends.” Roosh has
organized a “fat shaming week” to coerce women
into losing weight.
Roosh easily qualifies as both the most visible pick-up
artist in the world, with his videos regularly reaching
30,000 views. He has a combined Twitter following of over
55,000 as of January 2018. In 2016, Roosh organized a series
of meet-ups in 43 countries, leading thousands of people in
various countries to petition their government to ban Roosh
from their countries. Some 58,000 people signed a petition
to ban Roosh from Scotland and 92,000 people signed a
petition to ban him from the UK. Since then, he was
reportedly banned from the UK.
Initially coming out of an industry emboldening men to
seduce women, according to Alex DiBranco, a Ph.D. candidate
in sociology at Yale University who had written on male
supremacy for Political Research Associates, pick-up artists
and men’s rights activists have increasingly become
muddled in the online space, especially with the emergence
of the Red Pill subreddit, a virulent misogynistic subreddit
which includes over 245,500 subscribers as of January
2018.
Set up by Republican New Hampshire state representative
Robert Fisher, who resigned from his seat when he was
revealed to be the page’s creator, the Red Pill is
chock full of misogynistic comment, coming from all corners
of male supremacy. Fisher, who asserted that rape
wasn’t all bad because the rapist enjoyed it, wrote
that women were inferior to men intellectually, that only
their bodies made them worth it and that feminists (or most
women) actually want to be dominated and raped.
Though Roosh is perhaps one of the most well-known pick
up artists, scores of pick-up artistry niches have developed
online, from subreddits like /Seduction (264,026 readers in
January 2018) to online forums like
pick-up-artist-forum.com, some of which offer sometimes
expensive courses to teach men how to lure women into sex.
However, their often predatory, cruel and inconsequential
advice on how to manipulate women sometimes disappoints its
practitioners. Men who felt deceived by these seduction
methods but still felt entitled to sexual attention from
women eventually gathered on the now defunct
“anti-PUA” website PUAhate, or the still live
Sluthate.com. They call themselves “involuntary
celibates,” or incels.
The violence so omnipresent in PUA hate first made
headlines in 2014: the website was frequented by Elliot
Rodger, whose misogynistic, hate-filled rants, which he
attributed to his rejection by women, eventually led him to
murder six people and injure fourteen in Isla Vista,
California.
It was on PUAHate that Rodger found “a forum full of
men who are starved of sex, just like me.” It
“confirmed many of the theories I had about how wicked
and degenerate women really are.” In his 140-page
manifesto, he declared:
“This whole viewpoint and ideology of
abolishing sex stems from being deprived of it all my
life. If I cannot have it, I will do everything I can to
DESTROY IT. My orchestration of the Day of Retribution is
my attempt to do everything, in my power, to destroy
everything I cannot have. All of those beautiful girls
I’ve desired so much in my life, but can never have
because they despise and loathe me, I will destroy. All
of those popular people who live hedonistic lives of
pleasure, I will destroy, because they never accepted me
as one of them. I will kill them all and make them
suffer, just as they have made me suffer. It is only
fair.”
While Rodger represents an extreme case, the kind of
violence and hatred that led Rodger to action was not
particularly surprising given the nature of the incel
community. Incels, who luxuriate in their hatred of women,
found a home for their hate-filled, misogynistic rants. One
of the incel community’s common complaints is that
women prefer “Chads” (empty-headed, good-looking
men) to nice men like incels, and for this they deserve
punishment. The violent rhetoric of this community finally
led to the banning of the /incel subreddit — which
claimed some 40,000 subscribers — in November 2017. The
now banned subreddit had long featured content like posts
entitled “all women are sluts.” Participants often
decried women’s lack of brain capacity, genetic
inferiority, cruelty, or designated women by the terms
"femoids" or even, poetically, "cum dumpsters.”
Revealingly, since the Isla Vista shooting, Rodger is
sometimes referred to by incel communities as St. Elliott. A
Salon overview of incel blogs shows support for Rodger in
many corners of the incel community. One, called That Incel
blogger, wrote:
What happened is punishment for evil and
violence of feminists and liberals. Any of you supporting
atrocities like women’s suffrage, immodest clothing,
child support/alimony, no ban on adultery, ban on
prostitution and a lack of female premarital chastity,
all the things that drove this young man to be unable to
find a girlfriend, are disgusting, horrible people and
you created a culture where this is possible.
Rodger is not the first to have committed deadly violence
in the name of male supremacy: in fact, his bloodshed is
referred to as “going Sodini,” after the murder of
three women by George Sodini at a Pittsburgh gym. Along with
Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, who slaughtered while 77
decrying feminism and “divorce on demand” in his
manifesto, misogynistic violence has taken many lives in the
U.S. and abroad.
On the borders of the hateful incel community, a
community advocating for male separatism has also emerged:
calling themselves MGTOW, Men Going Their Own Way, these men
decided to withdraw themselves from the toxicity of women
increasingly, eventually “going monk” by
abstaining from sex altogether. Decried by Roosh as
“passive and meek,” they also deem women inferior
and harmful and think they get in the way of male
achievement.
Though male supremacy has very much found a comfortable
home on incel and PUA spaces and on The Red Pill, as Robert
Fisher wrote under his pseudonym redpillschool, it is only
one of the domains where misogyny thrives on the
far-right:
“There's a reason the_donald, gamer-gate, and other
groups have adopted the phrase "red pill." It really doesn't
apply to only sexual strategy. But that doesn't devalue the
phrase "red pill" since the thread that ties ALL of these
groups together is a mutual disdain for feminism (and by
extension the liberals who use feminism to push their racism
and communism).”
Gamergate and online harassment
TRP is only the tip of a vibrant but hateful online
subculture, where men’s rights activists who have taken
the “red pill” now see male oppression everywhere
they turn. A constellation of anti-woman websites,
subreddits, blogs, and forums constitute the so-called
manosphere. Several harassment campaigns have emerged from
these loosely defined communities, all of which are united
by misogyny.
The capacity for online harassment among this subculture
rushed into full view during the 2014 #Gamergate campaign.
Ignited by a blog-post by an ex-boyfriend of female video
game developer Zoë Quinn — which led to unfounded
accusations that Quinn had slept with men in return for
positive coverage of her game — #Gamergate turned into
a full-blown campaign of harassment against women in the
video game industry.
Coordinated from gaming platforms to image boards like
4chan to Reddit and YouTube, the campaign was defined by
digital death and rape threats. Fueled by a familiar male
supremacist narrative, some “gamergaters” claimed
to be motivated by their indignation over the supposed
collusion between media industries and feminism, rather than
by misogyny.
Though many attribute the intensification of male
supremacy to #Gamergate, DiBranco instead sees
“Gamergate as significant in that it brought some
leaders to the movement.” Rather than broadening the
base of male supremacist networks, #Gamergate helped to
propel into the mainstream virulently anti-feminist
personalities, most prominently Breitbart’s "alt-right"
launderer Milo Yiannopoulos and conspiracy theorist Mike
Cernovich. As DiBranco writes, Yiannopoulos and Cernovich
rose “to prominence primarily on their misogynist
rhetoric.” Yiannopoulos seized onto the #Gamergate
controversy to voice his support of Gamergaters against
“sociopathic feminist programmers and
campaigners,” adding to his rich bibliography of
anti-feminist and sexist comments.
Cernovich, too, is another career misogynist: his first
blog “Danger and Play” (“The true man wants
two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman,
as the most dangerous plaything”) offered such dating
advice as “Misogyny gets you laid.” Soon,
Cernovich also cheered on #Gamergate, calling it “the
most important battle of the culture war this century.”
According to Roosh, Cernovich obtained Quinn’s legal
complaint against her ex-boyfriend and gave it to Roosh so
that he could write a piece attacking Quinn on his popular
website Return of Kings.
The "Alt-Right"
In An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the
Alt-Right, Yiannopoulos and his co-writer, Allum Bokhari,
wrote that “the so-called online
‘manosphere,’ the nemeses of left-wing feminism,
quickly became one of the alt-right’s most distinctive
constituencies.” As a Buzzfeed article revealed,
Yiannopoulos invited neo-Nazis, white nationalists and
members of the alt-right direct access to the editing
process.
A tight overlap exists between the "alt-right," white
supremacist and male supremacist circles, which feed each
other’s narratives of the dispossession and oppression
of white men, which is blamed on minorities, immigrants and
women. Both the alt-right and the manosphere agree that
feminism is the cause of Western civilizational decline. In
fact, the misogyny intrinsic to the "alt-right" might very
well be one of its distinctive feature, or a “gateway
drug.”
Xenophobia and racism had found a home in some corners of
the men’s rights activist movement from the beginning.
Fathers Manifesto, an early fathers’ rights group,
included a call to exile blacks from the country on its
website. The National Coalition for Men protested that
undocumented people could use the Violence Against Women Act
to stay in the U.S. In male supremacist subreddits, whether
/TheRedPill, /incels, /MGTOW or others, xenophobic rhetoric
abounds.
The overlap between "alt-right" and manosphere can be
seen among several far-right figureheads: Christopher
Cantwell, the neo-Nazi arrested at Charlottesville, once
wrote for A Voice for Men. He also interviewed MRA Karen
Straughan for his website, Radical Agenda. In August 2017,
some "alt-right" activists organized a Make Men Great Again
conference. Matt Forney, a prominent racist and sexist
writer at Return of Kings who has written that raping or
beating women is often justified (or that feminists actually
want to be raped), now writes on alt-right.com.
The overlap isn’t surprising: indeed, Return of
Kings regularly spouts anti-immigrant rhetoric (although it
is open to attractive female immigrants.) Its founder, the
widely reviled Roosh, positively reviewed the influential
book from "alt-right" and antisemitic Kevin MacDonald. In
2015, Roosh spoke at Richard Spencer’s National Policy
Institute. Soon enough, the backlash to Roosh’s
presence in the "alt-right", as a non-white man who had
sexual contact with white women, led Roosh to break with the
movement. As “a frustrated mob that wants to control
the sexual choices of all men,” he wrote, the
"alt-right" was no better than feminism. Despite this, Roosh
rushed to support Richard Spencer when he was caught on
camera speaking to an audience, which broke into Nazi
salutes at his cries of “Hail Trump! Hail our People!
Hail Victory!”
In many ways, white supremacy and male supremacy are one
and the same. A perfect embodiment of this is the concept of
“white shariah,” a shock-value concept that has
been gathering steam in white nationalist circles.
“White shariah” is the idea that the submission
and rape of white women by white men is the only way to save
the white race, since white women tend to leave white men
for their non-white counterparts, thus making violence
necessary.
Source: www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/male-supremacy
For
incels, it's not about sex. It's about
women.
Most of the victims in Alek Minassian's van rampage
in Toronto were women. There’s reason to believe that
was his goal.
Before he killed 10 people and injured 14 more on a
crowded sidewalk in April, Minassian posted on Facebook that
he was a “private (recruit)” in what he called the
“Incel Rebellion.”
“All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!”
wrote Minassian, referring to the mass murderer who killed
six people in 2014 to “punish all females for the crime
of depriving me of sex.”
Minassian is part of a growing subculture of men calling
themselves “incels” – or involuntary
celibates. To them, the murderer Rodger is a patron saint.
Now, since the Toronto mass killing, they have a new one.
Users of the website “incels.me” have begun
changing their avatars to Minassian’s picture, paying
twisted homage to the killer they say “could be our
next new saint.”
That either man should be canonized for his deadly
misogyny is both horrifying and utterly predictable.
Male supremacy — an extremist ideology we added as a
category of hate groups this year — has spawned a
network of online communities that advocate violence against
women. On these sites, women are called “foids,”
or “femoids,” a term combining “female”
and “humanoid” to suggest that women are not fully
human.
Collectively known as the “manosphere,” the
websites include so-called “men’s rights”
forums and how-to communities hosted by “pickup
artists” who advocate rape.
Underpinning it all: the idea that women owe men sex;
that women exist purely for their reproductive and sexual
capabilities; that men should dominate women.
The extreme hatred among incels has too often been
dismissed as mere sexism. Just 10 days after
Minassian’s van rampage, New York Times columnist Ross
Douthat recapped arguments that sex is a resource like
“property and money,” one that the sexual
revolution intended to be “more justly distributed than
it is today.” He writes:
“The sexual revolution created new winners and
losers, new hierarchies to replace the old ones, privileging
the beautiful and rich and socially adept in new ways and
relegating others to new forms of loneliness and
frustration.”
Douthat — like many — takes incels at their
word that their animus is driven by their inability to find
a sexual partner. That’s a mistake.
As our Intelligence Project director, Heidi Beirich, told
ThinkProgress, incels “have taken this moniker as
almost a badge of honor for men who feel like women are not
being the docile sex toys for them that they think they
should be.”
In other words, for incels, it’s not just about sex.
It’s about the women supposedly withholding it.
We define hate groups as organizations that attack or
malign an entire class of people for their immutable
characteristics. Incels like Rodger and Minassian target
women in violent attacks because of what they see as the
most immutable female characteristic of all: women’s
sexuality.
“I hate women. Truly, they are the scum of the
earth. Yet I am still biologically predisposed to want
them,” wrote a user named Madrame this week on
incels.me.
“I hold too much contempt to feel attraction to
them. I want to riddle them each with 250 with [sic]
tec-9 rounds,” replied user _incelinside.
The hatred these men feel stems — crucially —
not from their belief that they’re entitled to sex, but
from their belief that women are required to give it to
them. When women don’t, incels weaponize their
hate.
It cannot be women’s job to pacify men who hate them
because of their gender — just like it cannot be the
job of people of color to disarm white supremacists.
We began tracking male supremacy in 2012. In the wake of
the 2016 election, we saw how essential male supremacist
ideas were to the rise of the so-called
“alt-right” and formally added male supremacist
groups to our hate map the following year.
Now more than ever, it’s clear that we ignore male
supremacy at our peril.
Source: www.splcenter.org/news/2018/05/04/weekend-read-incels-its-not-about-sex-its-about-women
"I laugh at the death of normies"
"That moment when this random dude killed more people
than the supreme gentleman Elliot. I hope this guy wrote a
manifesto because he could be our next new saint."
After Alek Minassian’s Toronto van rampage that left
10 dead and 15 injured Monday, speculation abounded about
his motive. The 25-year-old suspect had not been on the
radar of law enforcement, and authorities said the killings
“were not national security related.”
Then a Facebook post emerged from what appeared to be
Minassian’s account. Posted the day of the attack, it
hints at an unsettling motive.
“Private (Recruit) Minassian Infantry 00010, wishing
to speak to Sgt 4chan please,” it reads.
“C23249161. The Incel Rebellion has already begun! We
will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys! All hail the
Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!”
At first glance, the language in the post invites a
healthy dose of skepticism. Considering the enthusiasm with
which internet trolls spin false narratives after a tragedy,
this claim was met with caution. But recent reports suggest
it is, in fact, authentic. Multiple news outlets say
Facebook representatives have confirmed the veracity of the
post, and Toronto Police in a press conference today
indicated they also believe it is authentic.
And what the post suggests – that Minassian was part
of the “incel” community – bears further
explanation.
“Incels,” or “involuntary celibates,”
are part of the online male supremacist ecosystem. The
Southern Poverty Law Center added male supremacy to the
ideologies tracked on the hate map this year, because of the
way these groups consistently denigrate and dehumanize
women, often including advocating physical and sexual
violence against them. On the internet, the male supremacist
ideology takes a few different forms. One of the newest
forms is “incel.”
Incels grew out of the pick-up artist movement, which
purports to offer men strategies to persuade, pressure,
cajole or trick women into sleeping with them. When those
strategies (or “game”) unsurprisingly proved
unsuccessful for many men, they became deeply bitter. To an
incel, sex is a basic human right for all men. So the women
who deny them that right are committing a heinous — and
punishable — crime.
Elliot Rodger provides the most chilling example of the
most violent ends of this nihilistic, spiteful and
self-centered ideology. He killed six people and injured 14
others in a mass shooting in California in 2014. He wrote a
manifesto blaming women for his loneliness and the fact that
he was still a virgin. “I'm the perfect guy and yet you
throw yourselves at these obnoxious men instead of me, the
supreme gentleman,” he wrote.
Incels see Rodger as their patron saint. They celebrate
his tactics, his body count and, of course, his manifesto,
and write wistfully of a violent uprising yet to come. They
glorify Rodger’s attack using the shorthand,
“going ER.” After last year’s horrific mass
shooting in Las Vegas, incels on Reddit praised Paddock for
killing “normies,” and hastened to claim him as
one of their own in the absence of a clearer motive. Shortly
after, the r/incel subreddit was banned from the
platform.
With the revelation Minassian may be a Rodger admirer,
the incel community is alight – some with indignation,
but most with glee.
"That moment when this random dude killed more people
than the supreme gentleman Elliot,” said user
Crustaciouse on incels.me, where many flocked after the
Reddit ban. “I hope this guy wrote a manifesto because
he could be our next new saint."
Users cheered the fact that Minassian killed more people
than Rodger. A person with the username Letting Go opined
that the women of Toronto deserved what they got.
“As someone who visited Toronto at the beginning of
the month, I can see how a man from that city could be
driven to kill a bunch of people like that. The women up
there are HORRIBLE -- even the ethnic women. It would
brighten my day if the majority of the victims were young
cunts like the ones that I encountered on my trip.”
Letting Go was jubilant when the identity of the first
victim, a young woman, was revealed. “It’s a
foid!” they said. “I have one celebratory beer for
every victim that turns out to be a young woman between
18-35.”
“Foid” is short for “femoid,” a term
popular with incels that combines “female” and
“humanoid,” suggesting women are not fully human,
just humanlike.
Some users were less wordy. User mikepence begged,
“PLEASE BE TRUE PLEASE BE TRUE PLEASE BE TRUE.”
KyloRen said simply, “Joyous day.”
BlkPillPres wrote, “ER doesn’t always have to
be violent, it just needs to be strategic and punish normies
in some way, they need to be in constant fear for EVERY
ASPECT OF THEIR LIFE, killing normies from my perspective is
kinda pointless but this is still good, I prefer acid
attacks to mass killings though, wonder who is going to do a
‘mass acid attack.’”
When one user rained on the forum’s bloodthirsty
parade, asking why posters were praising murder, user
FeminismsCancer replied, “Are you serious? The murder
of our enemies will of course be praised. It’s
rational.”
Incels.me had another thread, this one less certain:
“The Facebook post allegedly made by the Toronto Van
Attacker is most likely fake.”
Here, users bemoaned the fact that this narrative of the
attack would be used against them, some fearing that a newer
incel subreddit, a slightly less vicious replacement called
r/Braincels, would soon be banned. In an r/braincels Discord
chat, Incel Executioner said, “We're about to be
holocausted lads.”
A moderator of r/Braincels posted a disclaimer once
speculation began heating up, stating the subreddit
“does not support, encourage, or glorify any violence
or physical harm, or those who commit such crimes.”
“It’s 100% fake news, i think we as a community
have the rigth (sic) to sue the media,” said use Ub2w,
whose signature reads “Eugenics = Utopia.”
Chadmarco added, “I want it to be true for the
lulz.” And user Total Imbecile complained, “Im
(sic) 99.9999% sure its fake, but you just have to love how
everyone is so eager to bash ugly males, they dont (sic)
even care that its fake at this point it seems, theyre (sic)
out looking for whatever reason to shit on us.”
Details about Minassian and his involvement with incels
are still emerging. He was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of
first-degree murder and 13 counts of attempted murder, and
he will return to court on May 10.
Meanwhile, the misogynists at incels.me continue their
feverish discussion. User Crustaciouse began their own
thread this afternoon, titled, “I laugh at the death of
normies. They will die while we survive.”
“Us incels spend most of our time inside, there's no
way we would ever be victims of an attack.
But normies must now live with fear for the rest of their
lives, they can't go to school, the mall, or on a date
without having to fear another incel attack,” they
wrote. “And they should fear it, this is what happens
when you leave us without any love or
companionship.”
Source: www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/04/24/i-laugh-death-normies-how-incels-are-celebrating-toronto-mass-killing
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