Incel culture and violence against women could be on the rise due to troll farms and rage-baiting posts on social media. The term Incel is used to refer to an online subculture of men who are unable to attract women and therefore are involuntarily celibate. Followers of the sub-group interact in ways that are hostile and often violent towards women as well as challenging their rights as humans.
Online ‘influencers’ such as self-confessed “internet pimp” Andrew Tate have fueled the fires. Tate has not only created online courses which teach men how to traffic women for profit with his “Pimping Hoes degree,” but also has made claims stating that all women are sex workers. In an online video, he boasted that he would make women fall in love with him, force them into online porn, and then take their profits.
Despite the UK police currently attempting to extradite the alleged human trafficker for his crimes, online ‘truther’ Russel Brand and Alina Habba – Senior Advisor and attorney for Donald J – have shown support for the grifting misogynist. Tate who has built his empire off the back of exploiting women has taken to Twitter in a grandiose display of narcissism and delusion, stating how he will be the next Prime Minister of the UK. His statements read as the babblings of a highly neurotic and malignant opportunist to most of the mentally stable in society, yet there’s an underground movement of followers, of who it could be said, if their brains were made of dynamite, there wouldn’t be enough to blow a wet fart out of their back passages.
His audience is easily identified by their wailings that all of society’s ills are due to women, and also the reason for their abysmal, humdrum existence. They easily forgot how it was a woman that suffered and carried them in their wombs for nine months, tenderly cradling their bellies, before the agonising throes of childbirth, which pushed them out into the world.
Lest not forget that many influencers with a ‘large’ platform are not adverse to using trolls farms – factories of internet trolls (many of which are bots) that are systematically used to muddy the waters and create political division, discontent, and anarchy to influence their political or societal stance.
It’s also not just the overtly narcissistic hustlers that regularly ragebait across social media either. Sometimes it’s the so-called nice guys.
I stumbled across a post today, where a poster claims he experienced an incident himself whereby a woman treated a date unfairly. However, I recently saw this happen in a TV dating show, where it was most likely set up for the cameras for dramatic tension, therefore making the post more likely to be ragebait to create engagement.
It read: “Bartending a first date. Both late 30’s. She’s very sweet, but clearly just giving the nice guy a chance. He’s so excited he can’t sit still.
The date ends. She excuses herself to the bathroom, & hugs him bye. On her way out, she drops her number to another guy sitting at the end of the bar. Brutal scene out there. Poor dumbass is probably going to tell his mom about the big date.”
First of all, for a busy bartender, he certainly knew a lot about the couple, their rough ages, that it was a first date, and the fact she was giving ‘the nice guy a chance.” Did he stand behind them all night, spying on the conversation? One would expect a bartender to be too busy to eavesdrop on the customers. Something doesn’t quite add up.
Of course, if the post was intended as ragebait, it certainly worked and received 1.6k comments. As expected, the female in the encounter was met with derision, and contempt and inculpated for ‘not giving the nice guy a chance.’ Assumptions were made that she was a divorcee, and would be ‘complaining for the rest of her life that she’d never meet anyone as she must have cheated on the nice guys’. Other assumptions made with no evidence were that the guy obviously paid for her meal, she was after a free dinner, and one user claimed:
“Experience taught me if they go to the restroom before the end of the date you’ll never hear from them again.”
So, if you happen to have a healthy, regular bladder, this type of person has already set the whole encounter up for failure because you had to answer the call of nature.
The narrative soon became increasingly inflammatory and full of fury but the truth is, we will never know what happened in that conversation, which should have been a private moment. (If it actually happened at this individual’s bar as he claims). It’s unclear whether the guy came across in an unsettling way, if they were an obvious poor match, or if she just wasn’t into him. No matter your gender, no commitment should ever be expected on a first date or until you are officially dating and both parties have agreed to be monogamous. To expect too much from a first date is to set oneself up for failure and neediness doesn’t come across well from either sex.
Until men and women desist from placing social malaise and fault on the opposite sex, sexism will remain pervasive and Incels will feel vindicated in their hostility towards women.
