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Dehumanization and Demonization of Women: Misogynist Incel Speech and Violence in the United States and Canada

Elliot Rodger gained notoriety through embarking on an act of terror targeting a sorority at the University of California, Santa Barbara, killing six people in May 2014. The act of mass violence brought attention to his manifesto and a video in which he describes the intention to seek retribution against all women because he felt entitled to and unjustly deprived of sexual intercourse. Rodger selected a target that symbolized to him the most sexually desirable and unattainable women. As secondary targets, he was enraged by and jealous of sexually successful men, and viewed non-white men as inferior. His manifesto and video have been cited by multiple mass killers since 2014 and influenced the development of the misogynist incel movement.

This case study examines speech by Elliot Rodger, a misogynist incel mass murderer, and how his words have influenced other violent misogynists.

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