Reese Oliver
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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So, in addition to language, perhaps the biggest tool in the incel toolbox that we will be sure to unpack a little bit later with last podcast on the left is humor.
According to a Canadian journal titled Incels: A Guide to Symbols and Terminology.
Incels use dark humor, memes, and self-deprecation as a way to communicate and commiserate with each other, but more often discuss ways to
to seek retribution against society, which involves targeted violence against women.
self-harm suicidal ideation and the celebration of tragedy or violence where women or quote unquote normies have been harmed on the basis of their gender beliefs or access to sex.
What are some of the cultural factors that you think took the incel community from Lonely Dudes on Forums into a full-blown hate movie?
I suppose I don't know if this is just the the feminist rhetorics course I took last spring.
But I suppose I see it more of like the curtain is being pulled back.
I don't know necessarily that a a perspective is truly shifting so much as these people are feeling more comfortable to vocalize these opinions that have long been held and these perspectives that have long controlled us more implicitly are just being allowed to become the explicit cultural norm, which is obviously
Terrifying.
But I think the irony and the joke of it all, like you said, is a huge factor in that because, you know, it's easy enough to laugh at Pepe the Frog online, but then Pepe the Frog is like storming into the capital and it's right there in front of you.
Yeah, so you had mentioned Nathan Larson as kind of a figurehead for these incels.
Another figurehead that we looked into a little bit was Elliot Roger, who was treated as a folk hero in some of these spaces.
Who is he?
Elliot Roger, a self identified incel.
He carried out a deadly stabbing and shooting in California in twenty fourteen.
This is the guy
Like we were saying, there are certainly people who have idolized Elliot Roger.
In 2021, a Toronto man killed 10 people with a van, and he cited Elliot as the supreme gentleman, being one of his sources.
So, given these kind of conflicting forces of wanting to turn inwards and only idolize yourself, but also needing an ultimate figurehead, who do we think is the leader of this cult?
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