The online incel (“involuntary celibate”) subculture is mostly known for its extreme rhetoric, primarily against women, sometimes erupting into violence. But a growing number of self-identified incels ...

They also argue that only men who conform to heteronormative standards of masculinity are considered attractive and regard sex as a transactional act devoid of emotional ties. This combination of ...

‘I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t think at least half the group was crazy,’ Harta* tells me from his home in the US. I can’t see him – like other men in my study into the world of incels, he’s ...