Title :

“I’ll always be a subhuman, I just lost the genetic lottery”
Subaltern Identity-building in Online Incel Discourse and Ideology

Author(s) :

Bachaud, Louis [Auteur]
Université de Lille
Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]
University of Kent [Canterbury]
School of Anthropology and Conservation [University of Kent] [SAC]

Journal title :

Nuevo mundo Mundos Nuevos

Publisher :

CERMA

Publication date :

2024

ISSN :

1626-0252

English keyword(s) :

incels
genetics
gatekeeping
intersectionality
violence

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie

English abstract : [en]

Incels, a unique Internet community of involuntary celibate men, have increasingly come under the spotlight since the mid-2010s. These heterosexual men are united by their lack of sexual and romantic experience, and their ...
Show more >Incels, a unique Internet community of involuntary celibate men, have increasingly come under the spotlight since the mid-2010s. These heterosexual men are united by their lack of sexual and romantic experience, and their feeling of social inadequacy and isolation. They have developed a whole subculture, with its own idiom, labels, and theories, to make sense of their shared experience. By qualitatively analyzing a corpus of online incel discourse from the past ten years, this article reveals how incel identity is constructed and maintained by producing a trope of subalternity. Incels’ individual experiences of rejection and personal feelings of subalternity are strengthened and given social and structural meaning through a common use of specific jargon and theories, as well as through appropriation of scientific research. This subaltern identity is fiercely defended and worn as a paradoxical badge of honor, while different subgroups jockey for the position of “most disadvantaged.” Ultimately, our analysis establishes links between the extreme self-deprecation found in incel communities and the violence that has come out of them.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre d'Études en Civilisations Langues et Lettres Étrangères (CECILLE) - ULR 4074

Source :

Harvested from HAL