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Three Major Traits That Might Help Spot an 'Incel': Study​

Researchers have identified three characteristics that might predict a future "incel."

According to a study published this month in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, incels share the traits of depression, paranoia and a fearful attachment style.

Incels, or involuntary celibates, comprise an online subculture of men who feel unable to secure romantic or sexual relationships with women.

"Incel individuals share a general sense of failure, feel outcasted by society and excluded by relationships, and have strong feelings of rage towards their condition and other people, women in particular," Drs. Giacomo Ciocca and Lilybeth Fontanesi told Newsweek.

The Italian researchers studied 777 men through a series of questionnaires, investigating their demographic information, depression and anxiety levels, attachment styles, and paranoia symptoms. They determined that depressive-anxious symptoms, paranoid thinking and a fearful attachment style are pivotal to the development of an incel.

On the other hand, a secure attachment style can protect someone from becoming an incel, they said.

Self-described incels have repeatedly perpetrated mass violence in the United States. This year, a Secret Service report warned that incels pose a growing national threat.

Elliot Rodger, who killed six people at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014, left behind a YouTube video raging against women who had rejected him and swearing revenge. He became a hero to misogynistic killers such as Scott Paul Beierle, who likened himself to Rodger before killing two women at a Florida yoga studio in 2018. And in 2020, self-described "anti-feminist" lawyer Roy Den Hollander killed the son of a federal judge. His manifesto said, "Manhood is in serious jeopardy in America."

This month, four University of Idaho students were mysteriously stabbed to death. Although a suspect has not been identified, a forensic psychiatrist told Newsweek the killer could be an incelwho felt rejected by one of the murdered women. Police have said they believe the killings were targeted.

"In our opinion, it is very important to study the psychology and psychopathology of incel males to detect and prevent risk factors for deviant or violent behavior against women," said Ciocca and Fontanesi.

Although their study focused on males, they added that men are not the only individuals at risk of cultivating an incel attitude.

"Our results and the recent literature suggest that incel personality traits may be shared also by young women, defined as 'femcels,' who experience the same feelings of failure, rejection and loneliness," they said.

 

[Mr. Bung]

That doesn't really explain anything. This establishment has taken a specific interest in incels, which are by any metric not a major threat.


3 noteworthy attacks spread across 8 years is nothing. There are more deaths in Chicago every weekend than incels have killed in the past decade. So why focus on them?

Because they're the perfect scapegoat for various problems society is facing, and since they're the most powerless group in society they can't really defend against the accusations.

It's no excuse for their shitty behavior and self-pitying, but it certainly doesn't help that they're seen this way either.

 

[PaleTay]

I do think the "incel" label is just used to shun genuine people at this point. Especially in suburbia, everyone gets lonely and bored and feels like they lack friends, except for the people who simply want anyone to consume product with. Or it makes people feel like there's something wrong with them for not liking their shitty neighbors or co-workers. Or there's something wrong with being vulnerable and wanting to have real human connection.

I know 9s and 10s who feel lonely and rejected by society, or celebrities who feel like they only have a few friends.

 

[Individualism Incarnate]

Spree killers are SIGNIFICANTLY less common then the Government and Media want you to believe they are

Gotta shift the blame from gang violence and cartel shit somehow.

 

[duckbutter&toejamsandwich]

What is the anti-incel thing the establishment is on a really about? Their claims are obviously not to be taken at face value, but why have they chosen this particularly powerless and, statistically speaking, probably some of the least hamrful of people to persecute?

A lot of influential groups have spent the last 60 years using various means to convince white people to not marry and make more children. This has left a population of excess single men. Historically large populations of single men have led to uprisings and civil war.

Some globalist flunky was probably thinking "There's a lot of unmarried men, I wonder how we can exploit them to make more money? What did they do with extra men in the past?" Goes to Google, "Oh....shit..."

 

[Zero Day Defense]

If you had a chaotic early childhood, you are terrified of being abandoned by those you love and try avoiding intimacy of any kind. You are fearful-avoidant or disorganized. Or BPD.

Either way, you're a prime candidate to pilot giant robots*.

 

[lostkeys]

It’s hard to say this in a way that doesn’t sound like superficial concern-trolling, but I feel bad for “incels”, not really the virginity part (I don’t care about that; because it’s weird and invasive to think about), but because to me it is so obvious that a lot of them had a bad upbringing and no community to mentor them. They’ve inherited a nation in decline. Recently there appears to be a shadow campaign from DHS, MSM, and Academia to demonize and ridicule these young men. I am a woman/mother and it is so obvious and perplexing to me, it’s so cruel. Why focus on their virginity, that’s a private matter that will sort itself out once they have a solid foundation of security, purpose, companionship, a bit of luck that will likely happen when you least expect, and whatnot.

 

[Wormy]

I do think the "incel" label is just used to shun genuine people at this point. Especially in suburbia, everyone gets lonely and bored and feels like they lack friends, except for the people who simply want anyone to consume product with. Or it makes people feel like there's something wrong with them for not liking their shitty neighbors or co-workers. Or there's something wrong with being vulnerable and wanting to have real human connection.

I know 9s and 10s who feel lonely and rejected by society, or celebrities who feel like they only have a few friends.

because it’s weird and invasive to think about), but because to me it is so obvious that a lot of them had a bad upbringing and no community to mentor them. They’ve inherited a nation in decline.

How many people, however, have all these factors if not worse, and don't turn like the incel community?


"Incel" is a very specific philosophy and state of mind.

Being lonely and wanting human interaction doesn't make one "incel". That's human.

Having bad luck with sexual attempts and being a virgin in your 20's does not make one "incel". It just makes you unlucky.

Not liking your jack off neighbors doesn't make you "incel". It makes you just wanting to be left alone for fuck's sake and I respect that.

Being "incel" as it is now is acting as if sex will bring about the solution to all your problems, that you are not just entitled to sex, but you are entitled to sex with whoever you want however you want, and the other party's consent and wants have nothing to do with it. Your high standards are to be observed and catered to, but "normies" and "stacies" having any is discrimination and bigotry against you. If your chin or head symetry or whatever is off, your life is not worth living and you will never achieve anything personally satisfying.

And also remember, NONE OF IT IS YOUR FAULT. IT'S EVERYONE ELSE'S

THE WORLD OWES YOU. They need to change, not YOU.

You are entitled to play video games, watch anime, and everyone else needs to work for YOUR comfort.

That's a fucking incel.

Now go ahead and make excuses for these poor little baby birds who never din du nuffin wrong.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

"Let's define something that has a single definition by three definitions that are completely non-unique to it and are shared on pretty most mental health issues"

 

[Wormy]

"Let's define something that has a single definition by three definitions that are completely non-unique to it and are shared on pretty most mental health issues"

If you got a better word for this community/death cult, I'm all ears.

 

[Idiocy Abroad]

Here are the real 3 traits.

1. Under 6' tall
2. Weak jawline
3. Autism

If we can fix these we can solve the incel problem. And no, the solution is not trooning out.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

What is the anti-incel thing the establishment is on a really about? Their claims are obviously not to be taken at face value, but why have they chosen this particularly powerless and, statistically speaking, probably some of the least hamrful of people to persecute?

Because we have a crop if frustrated young men who are angry with nothing to lose. While most are mellow and keep to themselves, the goverment fears a second UniBomber type terrorist that would come from that demographic. Nothing spooks the government more than a white man with a manifesto and a soldering iron.

 

[Otterly]

While there’s a small hardcore of men who have always hated and hurt women, the word incel seems to just be yet another way of demonising men who are reacting to the ways society dunks on men.
But in a way they are right. Young men ARE a risk. Not to society, but to power. It’s only young men who have the drive and aggression to pick up a gun and throw regimes out of power. It’s not the elderly or the women who do it, it’s large numbers of very pissed off young men. And so they must be demonised and feminised and demoralised.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Lots of wordsand "guides" for aword that's literally slang for "Someone who is involuntarily celibate". fuckers are complicating the incel term like they complicated the term white and like how those guys in germany complicated the term jew. not saying it's exactly like any of those situations but it's funny how they keep trying to turn incels into a faction rather than just people that can't get fuck and are mad.

The fact they even acknowledge the existence of incels shows that the powers that be fear a growing number of lonely men with little to lose. Nothing good ever comes out of an excess of surplus males.

BUT WHEN THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE, YOU WIN.

 

[anustart76]

Spree killers are SIGNIFICANTLY less common then the Government and Media want you to believe they are

The government also has a habit of creating these killers

A lot of influential groups have spent the last 60 years using various means to convince white people to not marry and make more children. This has left a population of excess single men. Historically large populations of single men have led to uprisings and civil war.

Some globalist flunky was probably thinking "There's a lot of unmarried men, I wonder how we can exploit them to make more money? What did they do with extra men in the past?" Goes to Google, "Oh....shit..."

China is currently trying to push their excess of young men into their military, strengthening their military while killing off the excess men. I'm sure the US would do the same if the military here wasn't more interested in troons.

What is the anti-incel thing the establishment is on a really about? Their claims are obviously not to be taken at face value, but why have they chosen this particularly powerless and, statistically speaking, probably some of the least hamrful of people to persecute?

#1) Lets say we tried to help incels....we might ask questions of like "Why is society making people like this" and then we might make changes to make society less likely to produce incels.

Whose power does that harm? Whose ability to make money off of the suffering of others does that limit?
#2) Because important politicians in chicago directly benefit from the gang violence. Its no secret. Thats why no one is stopping it

Because they're the perfect scapegoat for various problems society is facing, and since they're the most powerless group in society they can't really defend against the accusations.

It's no excuse for their shitty behavior and self-pitying, but it certainly doesn't help that they're seen this way either.

Young military-age men with nothing to lose are probably the most dangerous class of people in society, and they're created a large amount of them by taking away any incentive/ability for young men to settle down properly.
They attack the young men, tell them they don't matter, they're evil racist sexist blah blah blah incels, to keep them down because ultimately, it's these young men who have a lot of power, but they're kept as docile as possible so they don't use it. Society is literally built on the backs of young men. It's young men who build things, get sent off to die in foreign shitholes to defend others, pay most of the taxes, and take on most of the risk in society. Society shits on young guys, hating them and attacking them, all the while trying to hide the truth: it needs them and could not function without them. If the young men began to realize how important they actually are, they might begin to collectively stand up for themselves and try to change things, and the people who run everything can't have that.
See the 1946 "Battle of Athens" for a good example.

I know I'm ranting here but this bullshit pisses me off. Men out there, you do matter, you are not expendable, you are important no matter what they try to tell you. Just because you can't get some thot to have sex with you doesn't make you worthless.

 

[AprilRains]

Because they deserve every bit of it. People who act like shitheads deserve to be treated like shitheads.

Enjoy the results, in that case.

 

[Troonos]

Demonize your ideological opponent long enough and keep dehumanizing them and justifying violence against them, and you shouldn't be surprised when you get violence back.

 

[White Trash Motorsport]

"Trans individuals share a general sense of failure, feel outcasted by society and excluded by relationships, and have strong feelings of rage towards their condition and other people, women and gays in particular,"

Huh, totally works, the pipeline is real.
Something is pretty rotten at the heart of it all. If incels are supposedly drawn to the far right, and troons are the darlings of progressives, then neither has any useful answers or solutions.

 

[ITK]

While there’s a small hardcore of men who have always hated and hurt women, the word incel seems to just be yet another way of demonising men who are reacting to the ways society dunks on men.
But in a way they are right. Young men ARE a risk. Not to society, but to power. It’s only young men who have the drive and aggression to pick up a gun and throw regimes out of power. It’s not the elderly or the women who do it, it’s large numbers of very pissed off young men. And so they must be demonised and feminised and demoralised.

Kissless virgins without friends but with autism are not the type of men who lead revolutions. Barring that most of them spend most of their time indoors cooming, playing vidya, and posting on forums about how they would slay if only their maxilla was 2 centimetres more foreward, the gymcels are still too socially maladaptive to be able to organize in any way. The worst incels can do is occasionally go out and commit a lone wolf shooting at bystanders.

 

[Grand Wizard Wakka]

All the "incel" stuff just seems to have replaced "nerd", especially now that "being a nerd" is what all mainstream normies like to claim to be now since "OMG, I liek the MCU, I'm liek such a nerd", so now "incel" is used for the actual nerds. Nerds were always claimed to be dangerous anti-socials who would be eventual serial killers and school shooters too.

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

Gotta shift the blame from gang violence and cartel shit somehow.

Gang and Cartel Violence isnt that big a deal outside of places like Chicago and cities that have gone full leftoid

The government also has a habit of creating these killers

Young military-age men with nothing to lose are probably the most dangerous class of people in society, and they're created a large amount of them by taking away any incentive/ability for young men to settle down properly.
They attack the young men, tell them they don't matter, they're evil racist sexist blah blah blah incels, to keep them down because ultimately, it's these young men who have a lot of power, but they're kept as docile as possible so they don't use it. Society is literally built on the backs of young men. It's young men who build things, get sent off to die in foreign shitholes to defend others, pay most of the taxes, and take on most of the risk in society. Society shits on young guys, hating them and attacking them, all the while trying to hide the truth: it needs them and could not function without them. If the young men began to realize how important they actually are, they might begin to collectively stand up for themselves and try to change things, and the people who run everything can't have that.
See the 1946 "Battle of Athens" for a good example.

I know I'm ranting here but this bullshit pisses me off. Men out there, you do matter, you are not expendable, you are important no matter what they try to tell you. Just because you can't get some thot to have sex with you doesn't make you worthless.

Like one of the ways I think about it is Cars:

Kids used to be able to afford cards. That drove young people to get jobs. It also empowered young people to be able to go out andseek out the opposite sex. Thanks to the government kids aren't interested in getting cars at 16 (unless their parents are rich...and even then)