Self-hating ‘incel’ men are the new jihadists

I’d expected “incel” websites to make me angry, but mainly they made me sad. These forums for “involuntarily celibate” men reek of self-pity, porn-addled frustration, incipient suicide. Of course incels hate women, want to punish, humiliate and rape the “femoids” who won’t deliver the sex they regard as their birthright. But not as much as they hate themselves.

A guy posts a photo of his shameful “manboobs”; another writes of being a 5ft 1in “manlet”, treated eternally like a child; they call themselves morlocks, untermensch, genetic dregs and obese, neckbearded basement-dwellers. These male virgins envy the Chads (hot men) who pull Stacys (hot women) and even the “normies” (ordinary guys), while they are destined to live eternally without sex and, one assumes, love. Although no…