Is the Atlanta Mass Shooter Suspect an Incel?
I believe Robert Aaron Long isn’t an involuntary celibate but a voluntary one. But it still proved just as deadly.
An incel is a man, typically a young man (and more often than not a young, white man), who is involuntarily celibate. He’s too shy or socially backward to interest women enough to have sex with him, though he deeply desires a sexual relationship with a woman.
Feeling romantically rejected, the incel fills with frustration and self-loathing. Over time, these feelings morph into intense depression and rage. The incel finds release only in lashing out against the rest of humanity. He often kills people — often multiple people at a time.
Incels have been blamed for many mass shootings over the years, from Elliot Roger, who shot and stabbed twenty people in Santa Barbara, California, in 2014, to Scott Paul Beierle who shot two women at a hot yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2018, to more recently, Armando Hernandez Jr., the suspect arrested for the shooting in Glendale, Arizona, last May, which didn’t kill anyone but injured three people.
Incels don’t just open fire on innocent people. Self-declared incel Alek Minassian plowed his van into pedestrians in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018, killing ten…
