Fight with words: misogynist extremism on an incel discussion forum

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Fight with words: misogynist extremism on an incel discussion forum

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Fight with words: misogynist extremism on an incel discussion forum

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EH22_008%2F0004595" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004595: Za hranice bezpečnosti: role konfliktu v posilování odolnosti</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Norma

ISSN

1890-2138

e-ISSN

1890-2146

Svazek periodika

20

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

184-202

Kód UT WoS článku

001503013400001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105007454308