In 2018, 25-year-old Canadian Alex Minassian carried out a deadly rampage that left 10 people dead and injured 16 others.

New research reveals why incels are deeply unhappy in their dating lives, or lack thereof. Incels, short for involuntary celibates, refer to an online community of predominantly heterosexual men ...

A link has been found between men who identify as being an “incel” and being autistic, in a major study. Incels, which is a shortening of the term “involuntarily celibate”, are generally childless men ...

So post-last week a number of people (including Dan Savage) suggested sex workers as one way to head off anger in "involuntary celibates" and I asked my source what she thought. She said: "I hate ...

She said it reaffirms a lot of the hostility and anger these men have towards women, with even the term “incel” blaming women ...

If you have dared venture into the Reddit cinematic universe within the past decade, you’ve probably heard of incels. The mental image of an incel, also known as an involuntary celibate, is pungent — ...

After Alek Minassian killed ten people in Toronto it was found that he identified with the incel movement, and thus was born a hundred mainstream news outlet think pieces on defining the term. I get ...

In 2023, I stumbled across a subreddit called r/IncelExit. It’s a self-described place “for people who got drawn into the incel community but want support and help with a way out”. With the aim of ...

Deplatformed is a weekly column that looks into the nether reaches of the internet—outside the big few that everyone already covers—to tell you the political discourse online. It runs on Thursdays in ...

When I came up with an idea for a novel back in 2018 about a troubled mother and son, I needed to find an angle. I needed to ...