Amanda Montell
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1,990 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Amanda Montell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Stacy's are the attractive women who are somehow both idolized, yet, the whole reason they're incels.
Becky's are average.
Looking women who incels believe owe them sex.
Looks maxing is the act of trying to reach your full hotness potential through a mix of skincare working out and even plastic surgery.
There's also a whole host of derogatory words for women like
Femoid or FHO's, female humanoid organism, roasties, the whole thing, it gets really gross and ugly.
But if you back up and just again look at the mechanism and look at the bones, this type of vocabulary and this type of labeling system and classification system is motivated by some of the same things that draw people to astrology or any.
I think there is like a deep, deep desire to want to create a taxonomy to better understand the world, to make the world feel predictable.
Again, all of these overlapping cultic communities that we've been talking about, QAnon incels, white nationalists, what have you, they're all like sort of conspiracy theorists who ultimately feel like they are not in control of this like reality that they've read/slash blackpilled themselves into and how.
having all this terminology sort of makes them feel better, like they can understand themselves in the world better along the way, which is like what some live your life level cults do too.
You know, I think that's a very profound human thing to want.
Or distinctly uncute little boxes.
And all of this kind of bubbles up into the toxic soup that is the manosphere, an unholy alliance of incels, men's rights activists, alpha male influencers, and other self-proclaimed victims of feminism.
Their foundational crusade is that women are the problem.
And men need to reclaim their dominance.
So that is what this religion of sorts is fighting for ultimately.
Disgusting.
I do think that it is high time for us to face the manosphere on Sounds Like a Cult because we've really let ourselves off the hook.
We can't cover Sephora and Plant Parents forever.
So as we stated, there is so much to get into with the cult of incels.
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