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Crispy™ Are incels allowed in Chad's Gaming Discussions

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Okay... what is this Chad thing? What did I miss this time?



The term incel, a self-adopted label for a group of men who blame women and feminism for their inability to find sexual partners, first gained public notoriety in 2014, when Elliot Rodger killed six people in Santa Barbara, California, in “retribution” for women refusing to give him the sex he believed he deserved. It entered mainstream discourse again in 2018, when Alek Minassian allegedly killed 10 people in a Toronto vehicular attack after praising Rodger on Facebook and declaring “the Incel Rebellion has already begun!”

In the meme, Chad is rendered with MS Paint with bulky arms, a protruding jaw and chin, a blond spike of hair, and a package so big he has to walk bow-legged to accommodate it. His red tank top almost always bears an exclamation, like OUCH! or WOW! The virgin is pale, his body slim with a little paunch. He wears glasses, earbuds, New Balance sneakers, and ill-fitting jeans. His head usually tilts downward, his eyes on the ground. The meme places Chad and the virgin in various ordinary situations, explaining how the Chad dominates and the virgin fails.

Anyone who feels a twinge of empathy for incels after seeing a meme that casts them as harmless dweebs need only scroll down in whatever forum she’s viewing, where she’ll almost certainly find a post calling women “cum dumpsters,” suggesting that they be forced to preserve their “anal virginity” for incels, or proposing a policy of “mandated girlfriends”—aka sex slaves. Incel memes can offer us a window into the isolated community that has claimed two mass murderers as its own. But by defanging the worst parts of the incel philosophy, they can also mask its cruelty, the reason why it matters to those of us who aren’t in on the joke.
 

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