![]() ![]() Things have changed in the last 20 years". ![]() That's a pretty sad version of this phenomenon that's happening today. In 2018, Alana said of her project: "It definitely wasn't a bunch of guys blaming women for their problems. She stopped participating in her online project around 2000 and gave the site to a stranger. During her college years and after, Alana realized she was bisexual and became more comfortable with her identity. During 1997, she started a mailing list on the topic that used the abbreviation INVCEL, later shortened to "incel", for "anybody of any gender who was lonely, had never had sex or who hadn't had a relationship in a long time". The site was used by people of all genders and sexual orientations to share their thoughts and experiences. ![]() The first website to use the term "incel" was "Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project", founded in 1997 by a university student living in Toronto, and known only by her first name, Alana, to discuss her sexual inactivity with others, although some media has incorrectly dated it to 1993, the date of a personal interaction that later inspired her to design the page. Estimates of the overall size of the subculture vary greatly, ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands of individuals. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism states that "the incel community shares a misogynistic ideology of women as being genetically inferior to men, driven by their sexual desire to reproduce with genetically superior males thereby excluding unattractive men such as themselves" which "exhibits all of the hallmarks of an extremist ideology", and that it is the combination of a wish for a mythical past where all men were entitled to sex from subordinated women, a sense of predestined personal failure, and nihilism, which makes the worldview dangerous. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described the subculture as "part of the online male supremacist ecosystem" that is included in their list of hate groups. Over time the subculture has become associated with extremism and terrorism, and since 2014 there have been multiple mass killings mostly in North America perpetrated by self-identified incels, as well as other instances of violence or attempted violence. Incel communities have been increasingly criticized by scholars, government officials, and others for their misogyny, the endorsement and encouragement of violence, and extremism. The subculture is often characterized by deep resentment, hatred, hostility, sexual objectification, misogyny, misanthropy, self-pity and self-loathing, racism, a sense of entitlement to sex, blaming of women and the sexually successful for their situation (which is often seen as predetermined due to biological determinism, evolutionary genetics or a rigged game), a sense of futility and nihilism, rape culture, and the endorsement of sexual and nonsexual violence against women and sexually active people. ![]() Originally coined as " invcel" around 1997 by a queer Canadian female student known as Alana, the spelling had shifted to "incel" by 1999, and the term later rose to prominence in the 2010s. Incel ( / ˈ ɪ n s ɛ l/ IN-sel a portmanteau of " involuntary celibate" ) is a term closely associated with an online subculture of people (mostly white, male, and heterosexual ) who define themselves as unable to get a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one. For other uses, see Incel (disambiguation). ![]()
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