What do incels want? explaining incel violence using beauvoirian otherness

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    In recent years, online "involuntary celibate" or "incel" communities have been linked to various deadly attacks targeting women. Feminists have claimed this is because incels desire women as objects or, alternatively, because they feel entitled to women`s attention. For Beauvoir, when men conceive of women as Others, they represent them as simultaneously human subjects and embodiments of the natural world. I show how this Beauvoirian model sheds light on Rodger`s racist and classist attitudes and gives the authors a better understanding of his ambivalence toward women. One depicts incel attacks as a . . .

     

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