I spoke to men who swallowed the red pill: what incel culture is really like.

Short for involuntary celibates, incels are men who believe a combination of their bad genes and modern feminism have left them romantically/sexually destitute. In short, they consider themselves scientifically unloveable. As a psychologist, I find inceldom equally fascinating and scary. It's one of few subcultures built entirely around inferiority. In this article, I share my findings from interviews with eleven former incels as I tried to find out why they joined in the first place - and how we can help others leave.

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Open Access Institutional Repository at Robert Gordon University (Robert Gordon University)
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2025-03-19
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History of Computing Technologies
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I spoke to men who swallowed the red pill: what incel culture is really like.

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History of Computing Technologies
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I spoke to men who swallowed the red pill: what incel culture is really like.

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Short for involuntary celibates, incels are men who believe a combination of their bad genes and modern feminism have left them romantically/sexually destitute. In short, they consider themselves scientifically unloveable. As a psychologist, I find inceldom equally fascinating and scary. It's one of few subcultures built entirely around inferiority. In this article, I share my findings from interviews with eleven former incels as I tried to find out why they joined in the first place - and how we can help others leave.

Open Access Institutional Repository at Robert Gordon University (Robert Gordon University)
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