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[-] AnalogAllamma@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Incel (insel?)

The first time I heard the term it was from a medium article where the author claimed to have infiltrated an incel forum. My immediate thought was, how the hell does this person have any clue who the hell is behind the screens in these "incel forums"??

Now I see the term thrown around all over reddit, especially when discussing straight men issues. I also see it showing up in TV shows. Always used to demonize and degrade straight men.

To me, the whole "incel movement" is more likely to something created and perpetrated by "feminists" and or the LGBT movement. Especially after watching a SWAT episode about the very subject. In the episode, they find out that the "incel forum" in question was created and managed by a WOMAN.

Not to mention this guy Thomas R. Insel! This dude is a former NIHM guy and did major studies involving vasopressin and oxytocin, two chemicals released in mammals during sex. He also volunteered to revamp California's mental health system under Gavin Newsom and worked on a Google X technology that allows someone to detect someone's emotional state remotely through devices (they've since changed the wording on his Wikipedia page).

Again his last name is Insel. It couldn't be anymore obvious to me. Plus why would a bunch of straight men spend their free time in a forum getting angry about women when the Internet is flooded with an endless amount of straight pornography! It just doesn't make any sense to me and it's always a major red flag when it's a single word or term that is used to derail or deter conversations so easily. Antisemitism is another example of this.

this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2026
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