Fight with words: misogynist extremism on an incel discussion forum
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F25%3A10500168" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/25:10500168 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=qaPagju5I_" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=qaPagju5I_</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2025.2513103" target="_blank" >10.1080/18902138.2025.2513103</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Fight with words: misogynist extremism on an incel discussion forum
Original language description
Incels are a group of people who mobilize around their inability to form romantic and/or sexual relationships. Their mobilization has been linked to online misogyny and violent acts of terrorism. This articleexplores discourses around gender equality and sexual rights on the extremist forum incels.is. We approach these discourses through a framework of misogynist extremism,which seeks to highlight the role of misogyny in extremism, terrorism and violence. By applying computationally-assisted discourse analysis using a word2vec model, we study discourses surrounding words related to gender-diverse identities, non-heterosexual sexualities and feminism, with the hypothesis that these individuals and/or social movements are framed as a threat to the cisgenderist hetero-patriarchal gender order. Our data supports this hypothesis by revealing the use of slurs and pejorative terms, hinting at dehumanization, othering and scapegoating. In the discussion, we explorehow gender is imagined as a tradition that discriminates between insiders and outsiders, which can be used as symbolic glue for all conservative movements. The article brings together different theories on gender, gender order, the farright, anti-feminism and anti-gender mobilization, discourses and rhetorical tools to help understand how a hetero-patriarchal and cisgenderist understanding of gender can be formulated into an extremist worldview.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004595" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004595: Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Norma
ISSN
1890-2138
e-ISSN
1890-2146
Volume of the periodical
20
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
184-202
UT code for WoS article
001503013400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105007454308