Part Two: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution
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Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about incels. Or at least that's what we're talking about this week. The pipeline that led us as a society from Elliot Rodger and the Isla Vista shooting in 2014 to clavicular and the trend of looks maxing, which includes hitting yourself in the face with a hammer to get hotter. We'll be talking about all of that and explaining the rest of it. But first, let me reintroduce my wonderful guest for these episodes, Kat Abugazela. Kat, welcome to the show. Robert, thank you so much for having me. How you doing, Kat? Are you running for something? A marathon, right? Yeah, there you go, there you go. No, I actually haven't worked out since I launched my congressional campaign, which is what I'm running for.
What is the historical significance of Elliot Rodger in incel culture?
So anything beyond the flights of stairs it takes to get to my apartment wins me. I'm so weak now, but only physically physically. Mentally and spiritually, we're strong. But yeah, I'm running for Congress in the 9th District of Illinois. So if you are in the Chicago area, that goes from Uptown up to Evanston over to Skokie and then all the way to Crystal Lake in Algonquin. Election Day is March 17th. You can find my website at catforillinois.com. That's cat with a K. We are a progressive populist campaign. That's the only one in this race supported by majority small dollar donations of the three most viable candidates in this race. I'm the only one that hasn't met with APAC. And I also have an orange cat named Teeter.
Yeah. And if everyone's really good, I'll bring her on camera. You're also the only person we have ever had as a guest for this show who is actively running for office. This being what it is, it's not a thing we normally do, but you have been a friend for quite some time. And before you started running, I've always respected your work as a journalist and as a researcher. And if anyone's going to be in Congress, I would prefer it be you. Thank you. As we all know, electoralism is the only way to get out of this.
It's the only thing that we do.
Nothing else will fix this. I thought you were going to say the only guest under federal indictment. And then I was like, that can't be true. No, I feel like we've had more than one. Hilarious. We had Chelsea Manning on the show. I mean, she wasn't actively under an indictment. Speaking of indictments. Wow. Actually not. There's not really much in the way of indictments as a result of incel stuff because they don't tend to get caught before they commit their crimes.
You made me nervous at the beginning because you said Behind the Bastards, a podcast about incels, which is exactly what will get clipped into the Google algorithm when people look up what Behind the Bastards is.
Classic incel podcast. Look, maybe we can, we might be able to de-radicalize them this way. Maybe. No joke. That might work. I've had multiple guys who have jacked off to my video explainers that were like, I was a Nazi and then your words got through to me. Wow. And I was like, you don't need to share that. I guess whatever works. Keep it to yourself, but go off. That's really one of those like, okay, I mean, what are you going to do? This podcast is about incels. Yeah. Listen to this podcast if you are an incel.
Right. If the AI summary at Google does come up saying that I'm going to die, I'm just going to die. Great.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:52
2
What is the historical significance of Elliot Rodger in incel culture?
0:52–23:46
3
How did the 2009 PUAHate.com community influence incel ideology?
23:46–24:21
4
What violent incidents are associated with the incel movement?
24:21–27:25
5
What are the implications of incel ideologies on societal perceptions of beauty?
27:25–28:19
6
How does the concept of bone smashing relate to incel beliefs?
28:19–31:28
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How has incel terminology evolved in online communities?
31:28–33:23
8
What role does looks maxing play in incel culture?
33:23–1:16:58