ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author traces the history of the misogynist incel movement and describe its ideology. As the women’s rights movement undermined the patriarchal status quo in the 1970s, the seeds for new ideologies and movements aiming to reinstate men’s dominance were planted in the United States and Canada. The manifesto and videos created by the Santa Barbara perpetrator present his lack of sexual access to women on demand as not just individual grievance but an injustice, a frame that is found in both leftist and rightist social movement-building. The themes found in the Santa Barbara manifesto have been picked up, elaborated on, and evolved in new directions in misogynist incel discourse. Since 2014, multiple acts of mass violence and attempted violence in the United States and Canada have referenced the Santa Barbara perpetrator or been connected to misogynist incel ideology.
