Speaking as someone who has been mentally ill and lonely for most of my teenage and adult life, incels are not just mentally ill and lonely. Incels subscribe to a politics of sexual entitlement and resentment towards women specifically because they feel they have not received the patriarchal favors they believe they’re entitled to, and why they hurt and kill women who don’t provide it to them. It’s literally just “mass shooters are just mentally ill” bullshit done to another violent group of people ignoring the role fascist ideology and gender and sexual politics plays in producing them.
