The words “incels,” “alpha” and “manosphere” never crossed Abby Eckel’s mind when she was pregnant with her two sons. Now that the boys are 8 and 10 ― on the cusp of their teenage years ― keeping them ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many parents, particularly of young boys, may fear they don’t know enough about what their children are exposed to online. I ...

If you've spent any time consuming dating content lately, you've almost certainly encountered the vocabulary: high value, alpha, body count, Chad. Terms that, not long ago, were esoterically confined ...

Incels take this perception to the extreme, positioning themselves at the bottom of a natural male hierarchy because of women's supposedly hardwired preferences for alpha males. This is in contrast to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But, for obvious reasons, there aren’t many places on the internet (and beyond) where people who’ve experienced — and are ...

‘I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t think at least half the group was crazy,’ Harta* tells me from his home in the US. I can’t see him – like other men in my study into the world of incels, he’s ...

The Netflix series Adolescence has generated discussions about masculinity, male violence and the effect of “manosphere” content on boys. The manosphere is a collection of men’s rights and ...

The online incel (“involuntary celibate”) subculture is mostly known for its extreme rhetoric, primarily against women, sometimes erupting into violence. But a growing number of self-identified incels ...

In 2023, I stumbled across a subreddit called r/IncelExit. It’s a self-described place “for people who got drawn into the incel community but want support and help with a way out”. With the aim of ...

Cast your mind back a decade or so, and Reddit didn’t exactly have the best reputation. The sprawling online discussion platform was known as one of the more dubious parts of the internet, a haven for ...

Incels, or involuntary celibates, are members of an online subculture, most often heterosexual men, who believe they have been unconditionally excluded from the dating scene. This has negative ...