Incels - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I enjoy listening to the podcasts from KT Studios, good reporting and detail. This is an important topic and needs to be addressed. However, there are way too many ads! I get it-it’s how they make money and yes I can and do skip them. But the producers should consider how the amount of ads could negatively affect their ratings and numbers of listeners.

Keep these episodes coming. More people need to know about this issue. Not only to protect themselves and their loved one’s, but also to hopefully work towards changing toxic patriarchy that leads to these people feeling so lonely and defeated.

I was really interested when I saw that this podcast was being released. I think understanding incel culture is super necessary as American culture continues to stratify and as more and more people are radicalized by toxic pockets of social media. However, upon listening to the first episode of this series, I realized that this is nothing more than alarmist, click-baity drivel. No one will learn anything from this podcast unless they’re hand-wringing Boomer grandparents. It’s not well researched and the claims are so overblown. The hostess saying things like “not all incels are violent” is simply shocking. The vast, vast majority of people who can be classified using this pejorative term might be being pushed towards violence but they are not, and most likely will never become, actively violent. We need to understand these alienated people to hope to intervene in the process of their radicalization, not clutch our pearls while we re-hash the worst-of-the-worst cases like Elliot Rodger.