At the end of the day, we should try to correct these misconceptions. Incels may be many things, but they aren’t white supremacists.

Women sought to exploit men out of their money, as is their nature. Many of these women got a reality check when a celebrity came in, and ruined it for them.

Authors of reports and articles warning of the “incel threat” should take a step back and double-check their work for signs of faulty generalization. Not all of them will have fallen into this fallacy, but many already have.

An increase in hyposuitors is a societal problem, not limited to incels alone. We should see incels as the canary in the coal mine and begin to understand that if we don’t search for solutions to alleviate their condition.

An anti-incel consensus would have you believe that an incel is a person, typically male, who only harbours hate, racism, misogyny, and paedophilic tendencies. However, these stereotypes are far from the truth and are constructed as a masquerade of a new type of intolerance.

Cognitive empathy can allow us to tap into how lacking romantic relationships can affect a person, without the need to suffer the emotional effects that come with them. Reports and papers are the tools of the trade of the researcher, but they needn’t be the only ones.

Many of our enemies hate us to an extreme degree, but why? This is the question that I ask every time I have nasty words thrown my way on...