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Are Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate To Blame For Incel Culture?

Adebayo Adeniran
4 min readAug 15, 2022

My take on this fraught subject matter

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We live in the age of angry young men.

They are literally everywhere.

You are more than likely to find them at far right rallies, religious festivals, concerts, football stadia and nightclubs.

Unlike their forebears who were a monolith and by that I mean exclusively white, these disaffected men do have black, biracial, white and Asian folks within their ranks.

And far more than anytime in history, these angry men have found a way of making their voices heard.

And what is it that unites these unlikely band of men?

Their hatred of women.

And much more pertinently, their hatred stems from a profound sense of inadequacy regarding their masculinity and economic circumstances in order to attract members of the opposite sex.

It must also be said that up until quite recently, I had no idea that men who fell into the category above have a term with which they are described —Incels.

As ever, Wikipedia has helped fleshed out what these players are about:

is a member of an online subculture of people who define themselves as unable to get a…

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Adebayo Adeniran
Adebayo Adeniran

Written by Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible

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