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'''The Incel Project''' (Podcast), or ''' | '''The Incel Project''' (Podcast), or '''INCEL''', is a podcast started in mid-2019 by Naama Kates devoted to the personal stories of various incels. | ||
==Sympathy== | ==Sympathy== | ||
In a podcast, the podcast's creator says the the extreme incels do not define all of them. | In a podcast, the podcast's creator says the the extreme incels do not define all of them. She also was very sympathetic to incels in an interview with Honey Badger Radio. | ||
She has stated that she thinks people need meaningful relationships, which at least in 2019, is a not a particularly [[feminist]] thing to say, and is possibly the angle that those most people sympathetic to incels have. | She has stated that she thinks people need meaningful relationships, which at least in 2019, is a not a particularly [[feminist]] thing to say, and is possibly the angle that those most people sympathetic to incels have. | ||
She has also stated that women are indeed the [[sexual selector]]s | She has also stated that women are indeed the [[sexual selector]]s in humans and that more people need to acknowledge that. She also points out that the [[MSM]] representation of incels has been incredibly skewed and irresponsible. | ||
==Problematic language== | ==Problematic language== | ||
The trailer for the podcast contained some harmful and false tropes about incels, including: | The trailer for the podcast contained some harmful and false tropes about incels, including: | ||
*incels being relegated to the [[dark web]] (false, no incel communities have been forced to the [[dark web]]) | *incels being relegated to the [[dark web]] (false, no incel communities have been forced to the [[dark web]]) | ||
*incels becoming desperate due to alleged deplatforming (false, the deplatforming has been mild and inneffective) | *incels becoming desperate due to alleged deplatforming (false, the deplatforming has been mild and inneffective) | ||
*incels as a singular community (false) | *incels as a singular community (false) | ||
*incel forums as a provocation of real mass violence (false, no incel mass murderers came from incel forums) | *incel forums as a provocation of real mass violence (false, no incel mass murderers came from incel forums) | ||
==Naama== | ==Naama== | ||
Naama is an anti-authoritarian, anti-collectivist Democrat. | Naama is an anti-authoritarian, anti-collectivist Democrat. She is also allegedly a disaffected feminist and a [[Jordan Peterson]] fan. | ||
==Popularity== | ==Popularity== | ||
The podcast got some attention on iTunes, and has 27k+ listeners in only two weeks. | The podcast got some attention on iTunes, and has 27k+ listeners in only two weeks. It has been featured on the NY Times<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/arts/podcasts-conan-obrien-ivanka-trump.html</ref> and channel 4 UK. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<references /> | <references /> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[MSM]] | *[[MSM]] | ||
[[category:documentaries]] | [[category:documentaries]] | ||