As Incels Look to the Joker, Insane Clown Posse Should Be the Face of the Anti-Incel Movement [View all]

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In case you haven't had the displeasure: "Incels" — an abbreviation of "involuntary celibates" — are a group of men who meet in the dark corners of the web to support each other's rampant and often violent misogyny. For as long as the incel subculture has been around, the group has always had ties with white supremacist groups for the simple reason that incels tend to be abhorrently racist, and these two groups have the unrivaled ability to ruin virtually anything that would otherwise be looked at in higher regard.

At the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, for example, dozens of white supremacists marched with tiki torches while making antisemitic chants, so Tiki Brand (one of the only known manufacturers of tiki torches) had to issue a statement, saying that they did not manufacture kitschy mosquito repellents with goals of a white ethno state in mind (this needed to be said, for some reason). The Matrix, a film made by two trans women, became associated with “men’s rights” activists after they gave the phrase “red pill” enormously negative connotations.

And now Joker, a recent film starring Joaquin Phoenix, is finding itself at the crux of a national dialogue on incels and how the Joker character is a de facto symbol of the movement. As we reported earlier this week, the Texas Department of Public Safety warned of the possibility of an incel conducting a mass shooting at one of the movie’s screenings.

So now that incels have ruined one of the most famous clowns in all of pop culture, it’s time that we fight fire with fire and claim Insane Clown Posse as the symbol of the anti-incel movement.

Read more: https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/a-clown-for-a-clown-while-incels-claim-the-joker-anti-incels-should-claim-insane-clown-posse-11772410