![]() He probably had a narcissistic personality disorder. Rodger felt superior to others and referred to a “Day of Retribution” when he would kill those he was envious of - ‘Chads’, men who sleep with lots of women, and ‘Staceys’, feminine and attractive - as well as those who did not see the value he believed he possessed. And when asked why not, he said, ‘ Why do I have to compliment them? Why don’t they compliment me?’” “I got in touch with him a few weeks later and asked if he did it. “I said to Elliot, ‘In the next few weeks - if you see them they’ll likely give you a smile - and you can smile back and eventually turn this into chit-chat.’ Keep walking, don’t make any long eye contact, just give the free compliment.’ The idea being you might make a friend if you make someone feel good. ![]() “As I told him, ‘When you see a woman next time you’re on campus and you like her hair or sunglasses, just pay her a compliment.’ I told him, ‘It’s a freebie, something in passing, you’re not trying to make conversation. More from this author Why Incels are the losers in the age of Tinder Shortly before Rodger carried about the massacre, Dale Launer, a friend of Rodger’s father, gave the boy some not terrible advice for building relationships with women on his college campus. ![]() Elliot Rodger was a 22-year-old Incel who murdered seven people in Isla Vista, California, in 2014. The most notorious Incels, who have gone on murderous rampages, have indeed been narcissistic and entitled men. The rise of the online ‘Manosphere’ is a reassertion by men of traditional gender roles from which they benefitted immensely. It is a backlash against feminism the whingeing of men who have been taught by the tyrannical patriarchy to believe they are entitled to ownership of women’s bodies. Most begin from the assumption that Incel ideology, so far as it exists, is a product of men’s domination over women. Countless articles have appeared in the media equating inceldom with “toxic masculinity”, misogyny and violence. In 2018 the Southern Poverty Law Centre added Incels to their ‘Hate Map’, describing them as “part of the online male supremacist eco-system”. In the past decade there has been a three-fold increase in the number of men who have not had sex in the past year. For women it has begun to function as a putdown that ruthlessly dismisses unworthy suitors while simultaneously expelling them from the community of the good as misogynistic and creepy. For men, calling someone an Incel implies something positive - a certain sexual abundance - about one’s own existence.
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