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November 9, 2017 05:52 am PST

Reddit shuts down Incel forum

r/Incels was ostensibly a support group for the "involuntary celibate"—men who can't get laid—wrapped up in an internal mythology and glossary so bizarre that it seemed like an elaborate joke. But the nice guys' constant talk of hatred, murder, rape and other horrors finally woke Reddit up to the nastiness underfoot.

The 40,000-strong community was nominally a support group for people who lack romantic relationships and sex. They are involuntarily celibate or incel. However, popular posts from the last few months include ones titled all women are sluts; proof that girls are nothing but trash that use men and reasons why women are the embodiment of evil.

Members describe women as femoids and the men they have sex with as chads. There are many examples, documented on a watchdog subreddit called IncelTears, where incels have condoned or advocated rape, or described it as a made-up construct.

Hypervigilance is going to destroy us, yes, but I'm staying away from the mall for the next few days all the same.


Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8WZwhqAozfA/reddit-shuts-down-incel-forum.html

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