Boobytrap: The Incel-"Hero"

Bianca Devins (2001-2019) was a lovely as well as gifted young woman. Although having had to fight depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder the life of this 17 years old girl was full of promises for a beautiful future, but her death was a scandal: She was butchered by an acquaintance, Andrew Clark, who wanted more than just friendship. Not the first time something like that happens, but this murder was different, as it became a sort of incel-manifesto when the murderer made photos and videos of her dead body public. Some embittered incels saw the murderer as a sort of "freedom fighter", revenging what they saw as an "unfair celibacy" of young men.

Somehow these young men feel "entitled" to have sex, also with girls and women who exhibit or have any interest in either them or sexual relationships as such. They feel "cheated" of an imaginary "right to" sex, and may turn into more or less criminal ways of getting what they want, e.g. by stalking, raping or, as in this case, murdering a woman. Bianca was stalked and harassed by incels for at least two years, but she may not have been aware that her "friend", Andrew Clark, might be one of the stalkers, and that he had designs on her that didn't fit her ideas of their friendship.

Nothing on this Earth gives a man the "right" to have sex with a woman at will, but those incels, who feel that way, may ignore that fact, demanding what's not theirs to demand. Women of former times have been brought up with a sense of feeling sorry and also protective of men, but that steep delusion may have been brought to an end with a better understanding of what's going on.

As to Bianca she may have lost her life because she kissed someone whom she really liked which her incel-"friend", Andrew Clark, saw as a grave insult because she wasn't into him in a sexual manner. Something she had tried to explain to him, but obviously in vain. After the murder, the police found proof that he had researched methods of killing people, which suggests that it was pre-meditated.

These angry and embittered incels seem to be all over the internet, accusing women of weird designs on the male happiness they feel entitled to. Some are discussing their own physical shortcomings as they feel that had they been taller, shorter, slimmer or whatever, but especially richer, women would choose them for sex. They overall-image of women is that the female gender is economic exploiters of men, also when the women they berate are their own breadwinners, maybe of a family with children. It's both stupid and unfair, but it's also harmful in another manner: It keeps the incels locked into their own false ideas, unable to change and learn.