Thread by @brooklynmarie

By the way, "incels" is just another name for "misogynists." If someone is murdering women simply out of hate for women, it's called "feminicide," or sometimes "femicide." We gain nothing by giving murderers and their motivations new names.

Further reading. We are not unique and special with unique and special American problems. We are part of a global community and suffer from global problems, such as gendered violence

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I've been writing about this particular issue for a while and trying to make the point for years that it is not just an "over there" problem

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I'm getting justified pushback to my initial tweet which I phrased very clumsily, so to elaborate, I mean I'm tired of "incel" being used as an excuse or an out for violent misogynists in coverage, just like "economic anxiety" is used as an excuse or an out for violent racists.

Being lonely and sexually frustrated and looking for support online is a very common problem and deserves compassion. But the toxicity that is so easily introduced to those communities is pure misogyny.

And racism, of course, because hate, like all of the human experience, is intersectional.