What Do Incels Want? Explaining Incel Violence Using Beauvoirian Otherness

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Abstract In recent years, online “involuntary celibate” or “incel” communities have been linked to various deadly attacks targeting women. Why do these men react romantic rejection with not just disappointment, but murderous rage? Feminists claimed this is because incels desire women as objects or, alternatively, they feel entitled women's attention. I argue that both of explanatory models are insufficient. They fail account for incels’ distinctive ambivalence toward women—for their oscillation between obsessive and violent hatred. propose instead what want a Beauvoirian “Other.” For Beauvoir, when conceive Others, represent them simultaneously human subjects embodiments the natural world. Women function then sui generis entities through which can experience themselves praiseworthy heroes, regardless quality actions. go on give an illustrative analysis Elliot Rodger's autobiographical manifesto, “My Twisted World.” show how model sheds light racist classist attitudes gives us better understanding his It therefore constitutes powerful overlooked theoretical alternative accounts centered objectification entitlement.

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عنوان ژورنال: Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['1527-2001', '0887-5367']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2023.3