SEXTANT: masculinities, sexualities & decolonialities

ABSTRACT

In recent years, incels have gone from a practically unknown online subculture to a social group existing under intense scrutiny from academia and the public alike. Often, this scrutiny is heightened when a violent attack resulting in death is carried out by an individual who claims (or is claimed by) incel identity, as news articles and opinion pieces rush to publish the latest take on violent misogyny. In this article, I discuss the news media coverage of two of incel attacks (the Isla Vista Massacre and Toronto Van Massacre), and use a Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how incel identity and gendered dynamics are presented in the public sphere. 

KEY WOrDS

incels; masculinities; FCDA; media; homicide

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