

Racism also is a common theme in male supremacy discussions.Ī February report by the Southern Poverty Law Center called Rodger the “first alt-right killer.” At least 13 such killers - all men and most under the age of 30 - are part of what the nonprofit center calls the “far-right ecosystem that defines the alt-right.” Involuntary celibacy is part of a larger male supremacy movement that denigrates women and threatens violence against them. In dark corners of the internet, some incels already are celebrating Minassian for allegedly killing more people than Rodger did, Hankes said. “Not unlike Nazi Germany,” someone responded.

So that everyone will know what dangers to society we are,” one user wrote. “We’re going to have to get virginity numbers and badges assigned to us soon. On Reddit, a thread on an incel message board called Braincels bemoaned “virgin shaming” and the perception that the Toronto attack would lead people to think incels are terrorists. “The ONLY way to fix this problem is to take away women’s rights and adopt a system of equal redistribution of women.” “All violence, random attacks and terrorism are done by men who cannot find GFs, and thus women are DIRECTLY responsible for all of it,” the user wrote. In a discussion of the Toronto attack on the message board, another user wrote that Monday’s rampage was “caused by women’s rights” and the refusal of women to have sex with incels. The post on the message board /r9k/ - an infamous meme-filled forum where users express a violent disdain for women and social norms - included a photo of a sunglasses-wearing Rodger sitting in a car, edited to look like the cover of a Penguin Classics book, with the same title as Rodger’s manifesto. Elliot’s (PBUH) life work,” an anonymous 4chan user wrote Monday, using an acronym for “praise be upon him.” Minassian “must have been enlightened after reading St. His manifesto, which he titled “My Twisted World,” and his “Retribution” video have become warped guidebooks for many incels. “I’m the perfect guy and yet you throw yourselves at all these obnoxious men instead of me, the supreme gentleman,” he said in the video. Rodger wrote a 137-page diatribe and made a YouTube video titled “Elliot Rodger’s Retribution,” in which he lambasted women for giving “their affection and sex and love” to other men and pledged to slaughter sorority members at UC Santa Barbara.
