Tag: the joker

No, Liz Bruenig, incels aren’t incels because of “a lack of opportunities for heroism”

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date October 7, 2019
63 Comments on No, Liz Bruenig, incels aren’t incels because of “a lack of opportunities for heroism”

Captain Hero from Comedy Central’s Drawn Together

By David Futrelle

Yesterday, Washington Post writer and putative progressive Liz Bruenig tweeted out a few thoughts about the Joker movie and “the lonely, disaffected” men and boys who identify the most with the movie’s antihero.

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Incels cry foul after the US Army warns service members about possible incel attacks on Joker movie screenings

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date September 25, 2019
66 Comments on Incels cry foul after the US Army warns service members about possible incel attacks on Joker movie screenings

Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker

By David Futrelle

In a remarkable memo obtained by io9, the US Army warned service members of a possible plot by “involuntary celibate (“incel”) extremists [to] replicat[e] the 2012 theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, at screenings of the Joker movie at nationwide theaters.”