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The Black Pill: New Technology and the Male Supremacy of Involuntarily Celibate Men
Involuntary celibates, or “incels,” are people who identify themselves by their inability to establish sexual partnerships. In this article, we use analytic abduction to qualitatively analyze 9,062 comments on a popular incel forum for heterosexual men that is characterized by extensive misogyny. In...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8600582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34803370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184X211017954 |
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author | Preston, Kayla Halpin, Michael Maguire, Finlay |
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description | Involuntary celibates, or “incels,” are people who identify themselves by their inability to establish sexual partnerships. In this article, we use analytic abduction to qualitatively analyze 9,062 comments on a popular incel forum for heterosexual men that is characterized by extensive misogyny. Incels argue that emerging technologies reveal and compound the gender practices that produce involuntarily celibate men. First, incels argue that women’s use of dating apps accelerates hypergamy. Second, incels suggest that highly desirable men use dating apps to partner with multiple women. Third, incels assert that subordinate men inflate women’s egos and their “sexual marketplace value” through social media platforms. We argue that incels’ focus on technology reinforces essentialist views on gender, buttresses male domination, dehumanizes women, and minimizes incels’ own misogyny. We discuss findings in relation to theories of masculinity and social scientific research on the impacts of emerging technology. |
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spelling | pubmed-86005822021-11-19 The Black Pill: New Technology and the Male Supremacy of Involuntarily Celibate Men Preston, Kayla Halpin, Michael Maguire, Finlay Men Masc Articles Involuntary celibates, or “incels,” are people who identify themselves by their inability to establish sexual partnerships. In this article, we use analytic abduction to qualitatively analyze 9,062 comments on a popular incel forum for heterosexual men that is characterized by extensive misogyny. Incels argue that emerging technologies reveal and compound the gender practices that produce involuntarily celibate men. First, incels argue that women’s use of dating apps accelerates hypergamy. Second, incels suggest that highly desirable men use dating apps to partner with multiple women. Third, incels assert that subordinate men inflate women’s egos and their “sexual marketplace value” through social media platforms. We argue that incels’ focus on technology reinforces essentialist views on gender, buttresses male domination, dehumanizes women, and minimizes incels’ own misogyny. We discuss findings in relation to theories of masculinity and social scientific research on the impacts of emerging technology. SAGE Publications 2021-05-18 2021-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8600582/ /pubmed/34803370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184X211017954 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Articles Preston, Kayla Halpin, Michael Maguire, Finlay The Black Pill: New Technology and the Male Supremacy of Involuntarily Celibate Men |
title | The Black Pill: New Technology and the Male Supremacy of
Involuntarily Celibate Men |
title_full | The Black Pill: New Technology and the Male Supremacy of
Involuntarily Celibate Men |
title_fullStr | The Black Pill: New Technology and the Male Supremacy of
Involuntarily Celibate Men |
title_full_unstemmed | The Black Pill: New Technology and the Male Supremacy of
Involuntarily Celibate Men |
title_short | The Black Pill: New Technology and the Male Supremacy of
Involuntarily Celibate Men |
title_sort | black pill: new technology and the male supremacy of
involuntarily celibate men |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8600582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34803370 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184X211017954 |
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