On 12 August 2021, Jake Davison, a 22-year old man from Plymouth, Devon, shot and killed five people, including his mother, and injured two others before turning the shotgun on himself. What has made this story more than just a terrible tragedy has been the link between Davison and the Incel movement.
A growing number of men now refer to themselves as ‘Incels’ which stands for ‘involuntarily celibate’. To refer to Inceldom as a ‘movement’ is perhaps misleading. It is rather a collection of websites, blogs, private chat rooms, forums, social media channels and YouTube videos operating in the so-called ‘manosphere’. The manosphere was originally founded in 2009 by truck driver Paul Elam ‘to expose misandry [hatred of, and prejudice against, men] at all levels’. The term now refers to the promotion of masculinity, men’s rights and strong opposition to feminism.
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