ONLINE MISOGYNIST GROUPS THROUGH INCEL EXAMPLE AND VIOLENT BEHAVIORS

Year 2022, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 11 - 30, 21.07.2022

Ecenur Temelli

Abstract

While internet provides many advantages about ideologies to spread and find followers, also can be a place where hate speech and harassment toward women exist. Violent behaviors found to have a relationship between a heterosexual male groups named manosphere. While manosphere consists more than one subgroups, it is found that the most violent and extremist one is incels.
This study aims to present online hostile ideologies toward women through incel community. In this direction, the place of incel community in mesosphere, its attitudes toward women, and used language and jargon are examined. Also vio-lent acts of people who are self descriptive incels are reviewed. All in all, fea-tures of online misogynist communities, especially incels and their social-cultural importance are discussed within the scope of relevant literature.

Keywords

Incel, misogyny, anti-feminism, cyber psycholog, Incel, misogyny, anti-feminism, cyber psycholog

“INCEL” ÖRNEĞİ ÜZERİNDEN ÇEVRİM İÇİ MİZOJİNİST GRUPLAR VE ŞİDDET EYLEMLERİ

Abstract

İnternet çeşitli ideolojilerin yayılması ve takipçi bulması açısından büyük avan-tajlar sağladığı gibi, kadını hedef alan nefret söylemleri ve saldırılara da ev sahip-liği yapabilmektedir. Bu gibi şiddet temelli eylemler erkek evreni olarak adlandı-rılan özellikle heteroseksüel erkek toplulukları ile ilişkilendirilmektedir. Erkek evreni birçok alt grubu barındırmakla birlikte aralarında en radikal ve şiddet yan-lısı olan grup incel topluluğu olarak görülmektedir.
Bu çalışmanın amacı incel topluluğu örneği üzerinden kadına karşı oluşturulan düşmancıl çevrim içi ideolojileri sunmaktır. Bu doğrultuda incel düşüncesinin erkek evrenindeki yeri, kadına yönelik tutumu ve jargonu ilgili alanyazın çerçe-vesinde incelenmiş, kendini incel olarak tanımlayan bireylerin gerçek hayatta gerçekleştirdikleri şiddet eylemleri derlenmiştir. Son olarak Türkiye’deki erkek evreni ile ilgili çalışmalar ele alınmıştır. Sonuç olarak, başta incel toplulukları olmak üzere çevrim içi ortamda oluşmuş mizojinist grupların özellikleri ve top-lumsal kültürel önemi, ilgili alanyazın dahilinde tartışılmıştır.

Keywords

Incel, Mizojini, Anti-feminizm, Siber psikoloji, Incel, Mizojini, Anti-feminizm, Siber psikoloji

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