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The Batman: A Critique Of Incels.
I am concerned that no one is talking about The Batman. This movie is the most significant analysis and critique of incels we have ever seen in popular media. Yet, no one discusses this aspect of the movie. The Youtubers with the giant platforms dedicated to this type of content will discuss how gritty Gotham is, or the eye-black that Bruce Wayne wears, and why it is realistic. However, none of them are bold enough to discuss the Riddler and his white incel army, and I find this troubling.
The Batman provides us with a prescient warning about the looming danger lurking for us by the online radicalization of white boys and men. The movie jars us with the grim reality of the carnage incels and other disaffected white men have the capacity to wrought on society. We witness the community these incels have cobbled together. A community whose foundation is their common shared interest, which becomes metastasized by the fatal confluence of isolation, ignorance, and hate.
These Discord servers and chatrooms are fertile soil for radicalization to germinate. Community members become more militant as they recognize they are in a safe space to air their list of grievances. These men start being vulnerable with each other about their lack of sex, dead-end jobs/careers, and lack of friends. Many express they have never kissed a girl or gone on a date. These confessions and…
