I'm not reading any bullshit study on "incels" but I would hope they define their terms somewhere. It sounds like they mean "Young men who are sexually frustrated enough that it psychologically manifests in other aspects of their life."
It's a terrible idea to use colloquial terms like this in so-called research because even if you (re)define it, the term is a mental shortcut loaded with connotative meanings that will differ across the audience. Even if they didn't mean it as an insult (they did) just using a label like "incel" gives the impression that it's a peculiar state-of-nature unique to these men who are separate "others" existing in isolation from society - rather than creations of society.
I believe the research itself is meant to demoralize men more. The parties researching this stuff aren't actually sympathetic and don't mean to help the men. They mean to try and find manipulative ways to change the men to accept society the way society is rather than admit the problems with society.
When feminists said society was treating women poorly, we said okay you're right, we'll change society for you. When men say society is treating them poorly, everyone says fuck you too bad Incel.
I'm not reading any bullshit study on "incels" but I would hope they define their terms somewhere. It sounds like they mean "Young men who are sexually frustrated enough that it psychologically manifests in other aspects of their life."
It's a terrible idea to use colloquial terms like this in so-called research because even if you (re)define it, the term is a mental shortcut loaded with connotative meanings that will differ across the audience. Even if they didn't mean it as an insult (they did) just using a label like "incel" gives the impression that it's a peculiar state-of-nature unique to these men who are separate "others" existing in isolation from society - rather than creations of society.
I believe the research itself is meant to demoralize men more. The parties researching this stuff aren't actually sympathetic and don't mean to help the men. They mean to try and find manipulative ways to change the men to accept society the way society is rather than admit the problems with society.
When feminists said society was treating women poorly, we said okay you're right, we'll change society for you. When men say society is treating them poorly, everyone says fuck you too bad Incel.