Don't Work for Soyciety
” Involuntary Celibacy and Unemployment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12309986 |
|---|---|
| Authors | AnnaRose Beckett‐Herbert (Department of Sociology McGill University Montreal Canada, corresponding author), Eran Shor (0009-0003-4861-0828, Department of Sociology McGill University Montreal Canada) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1556-1566 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender Work and Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-6673 • E-ISSN: 1468-0432 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gwao.13248 |
| OpenAlex | W4407166073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 44 |
Surveys of involuntary celibates (“incels”) suggest that they tend to be not in education, employment or training (NEET) at disproportionately high rates. However, it remains unclear whether and how being NEET is connected to incels' ideology and life circumstances. To investigate this, we conducted a qualitative thematic analysis of over a thousand comments posted on the main incel forum, incels.is . We found that many users promoted unemployment and social disengagement as a form of retaliation against a society they feel has harmed them. These users often encouraged other incels to embrace a life of isolation and used employment status as an assessment of commitment to the incel identity. Users also reported experiences of discrimination, bullying, and feeling incompetent at workplaces and educational institutions. We conclude that, for incels, being unemployed can be both an ideological stance and a consequence of their experienced or perceived marginalization
Celibacy · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Sociology · Unemployment · Work (physics · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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Curvilinear Sexism and Its Links to Men’s Perceived Mate Value
Online hatred of women in the Incels.me forum
Male Supremacism in the United States
The Black pill pipeline
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Hybrid Masculinities
Victims of feminism”
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Learning the rules of the game
This Sporting Life
The Mating Psychology of Incels (Involuntary Celibates)
Female Status Predicts Female Mate Preferences Across Nonindustrial Societies
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Marriage and Masculinity
Mechanisms of Political Radicalization
Thematic networks
The Black Pill
Digesting the Red Pill
Weaponized Subordination
The Symbolic Boundary Work of Incels
From Chads to Blackpills, a Discursive Analysis of the Incel's Gendered Spectrum of Political Agency
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |