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“I Don’t Hate All Women, Just Those Stuck-Up Bitches”: How Incels and Mainstream Pornography Speak the Same Extreme Language of Misogyny

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Tranchese, Alessia, Sugiura, Lisa·2021·Violence Against Women
DOI 10.1177/1077801221996453PMC PMC8474329
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This article seeks to establish the connection—via shared discourse—between Incels and mainstream pornography. With an interdisciplinary approach which involves a Corpus Linguistics analysis of Reddit forum data, research into digital behaviors, and a feminist critique, this article focuses on the commonalities between the language of pornography and that of Incels. In doing so, it demonstrates how both pornography and Incels are different manifestations of the same misogyny. The findings of this study highlight the normalization of violence against women (VAW), which continues to be endemic in society, enabled and exacerbated by contemporary technologies.

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Authors
Tranchese, A., & Sugiura, L.
Affiliations
University of Portsmouth (GB)
Corresponding author
Tranchese, Alessia
ORCID
Venue
Violence Against Women
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2021-03-22
Volume
27
Issue
14
Pages
2709-2734
ISSN
  • 1077-8012 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-8448
DOI
10.1177/1077801221996453
PMC
PMC8474329
OpenAlex
W3137546015
Cited by
107
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 22 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 1
FWCI
19.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Violence Against Women (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
University of Portsmouth
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Studies in Language
Keywords
incels, mainstream pornography, misogyny, normalization of violence, online discourse, feminist criticism, digital technologies
MeSH terms
Erotica, Female, Hate, Humans, Language, Linguistics, Violence

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