The Gentleman

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Opinion: The time for incel explainers was years ago

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-futrelle-incels-toronto-terrorism_us_5ae8d130e4b06748dc8d2b95

Excerpt: “Media outlets have obligingly offered up detailed explainers of the internet’s strange subculture of ‘involuntary celibates’ and their violent hatred of the women who want nothing to do with them. As someone who has been writing about the male supremacist movement on my blog We Hunted the Mammoth for nearly eight years ― and as someone who wrote one of these explainers myself ― I think most of these ‘incel 101’ pieces have been useful and accurate.

“The real question is: Why are they still necessary?”