Lots of Very Bad Takes start from the idea that incels are just men who don't get sex. That's not correct. It's much worse. 1/
Incel culture is based around both hating women and idolising them. It's obsessed with notions of purity and male supremacy 2/
Incels believe that a tiny number of men are 'Chads', hyper-attractive alpha males. They say ALL women want Chads . All of them. 3/
Incels believe most men are 'betas'. These men get married but their wives ALL cheat on them with Chads, or at least try to. 4/
Incels themselves claim to be too physically unattractive to have sex with any woman, ever. Their catchphrase is 'it's over'. 5/
Incels are obsessed with eugenic ideals of male beauty. They talk about wrist size and canthal tilt and chin structure. 6/
A key Incel idea is that there is nothing they can do to be more attractive as a partner. Nothing to work on, nothing they can change 7/
Incels insist that women are biologically designed to be monogamous, and that sex with more than one partner physically damages a woman. 8/
In particular, they claim women's labia are actually scar tissue and that they grow when a woman sleeps with a new partner. 9/
(this is very much total biological nonsense but it seems to be a widespread belief) 10/
And so incels often don't want just any woman. They want their perfect unsullied virgin who will love them obediently forever. 11/
Oddly, this leads to incels looking up to Chads as an unattainable ideal and talking about their physiques to almost homoerotic degrees. 12/
All of their anger is directed at the women, the 'Stacies', who only want sex with 'Chads' and thus ruin their sexual value forever. 13/
Sometimes incel groups think women should be forced to have sex with them, whether as individual rapists or as a new social order 14/
Sometimes it all turns nihilistic. Promoting suicide is common in incel communities, as well as cheering on mass-murders 15/
Incels are usually opposed to paying for sex. Because it's not the physical act they want, it's the social status. 16/
None of this conveys quite how creepy and gross online incel communities are. These guys are just repulsive, on the whole 17/
Lots of men want sex and aren't having it. They're normal guys, not incels. 'Incels' are a weird, cultish hate group. 18/18
