Summary
Not quite an incel, not yet a Chad. The gymcel is a little-known, but hugely polarizing figure. Rather than swallowing the black pill and turning away from society (one where evil feminists govern man's ability to get laid), the gymcel takes matters into his own hands and get gains in pursuit of the ultimate Chad-bod. After all, everyone struggles with body image from time to time. So why do women hate him? Or, better yet, why do incels hate him? Hannah and Maia discuss the gymcel and his peculiar role in the ever-expanding Manosphere, giving you a thorough breakdown of all the incel terminology we're sure you've been dying to learn ("looksmaxxing"... "manlets"... "fapstinence"...). Is a figure associated with the worst subsects of the internet worthy of our sympathy? Could the gymcel be more benign than he seems?
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SOURCES:
Sara Brzuszkiewicz, “Incel Radical Milieu and External Locus of Control” International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (2020).
Maddalena Cannito and Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto, “The Rules of Attraction: An Empirical Critique of Pseudoscientific Theories about Sex in the Manosphere” Sexes Vol. 3 (4).
Hussein Kesvani, ““The Latest Manosphere Subculture is the ‘Gymcel’” Mel Magazine (2019).
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-latest-manosphere-subculture-is-the-gymcel
Brian Van Brunt and Chris Taylor, Understanding and Treating Incels: Case Studies, Guidance, and Treatment of Violence Risk in the Involuntary Celibate Community, Routledge (2020).
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| 0:00.0 | I've got to tell you guys how productive my morning was. |
| 0:02.3 | How productive was it? |
| 0:04.1 | Well, I ordered a bed like months ago and it got scheduled a bit early to come today. |
| 0:10.7 | It was supposed to come in a few days. |
| 0:12.5 | And I had my other old bed in my room that is like a hunk of junk. |
| 0:17.4 | And in the span of like less than 24 hours, I managed to be able to sell my old bed |
| 0:23.4 | and get the new bed brought into my new place. And I didn't know that there was a service that |
| 0:28.4 | they offered where they assembled a new bed because I'm very new to buying like nicer furniture. |
| 0:33.8 | And so not only did they assemble my new bed, they also dissembled my old one in the span of like half an hour. I thought I'd be spending like two days trying to disassemble and assemble. Yeah, throwback to me. Throwback to Hannah. Spending a whole day trying to put together an IKEA bed. Okay, but this is something I didn't know which Hannah informed me about is that IKEA, the whole point is that you do it all yourself. I thought the whole point of IKEA was that it's like easier to assemble their furniture. Well, I'm sure it is easier to do yourself |
| 0:59.7 | than if you were to assemble this whole bed. But like this whole bed has been put together by like |
| 1:05.4 | a person who builds furniture. If you look at it, it's not something that you can just put together |
| 1:10.2 | with a couple screws. Interesting. I don't know. It's just a really pleasant surprise. This is adulting. I guess this is adulting. Yeah, now I have a brand new bed in my room. It's really high. It's like towering over the rest of the furniture in my room because I just didn't think it through. But it definitely looks like you could have a mortgage, |
| 1:27.9 | that kind of bed. I don't have a mortgage. Not yet. Toronto. If I could afford a mortgage, why would I live in Toronto? You know what I mean? If I had that many millions of dollars to be able to have a mortgage in Toronto, why wouldn't I just live, like, anywhere else? She said it first tear. I told you. How are you? I'm good. I thought I bought a chocolate |
| 1:47.2 | chip cookie and it was a breakfast cookie and that was a little disappointing, but I got over it. It was |
| 1:51.9 | still good. That was a blow. Look, sometimes life isn't always highs. Someone really is trying to convince |
| 1:57.6 | us all that those are like tasty and I don't know I just beg to differ. |
| 2:17.5 | I like a breakfast cookie when I know I'm ordering a breakfast cookie, but it just sucks to open up that bag once you've got home and you're like, oh, that's not a chocolate chip cookie. Well, that's what I mean though. To eat a breakfast cookie, you really have to plumb in your expectations. And then you're like, okay, I'll enjoy this because I know I'm going to eat something that's honestly not that enjoyable to eat. |
| 2:18.9 | Sorry. |
| 2:22.5 | She's just coming out here with her cold-heart opinions. |
| 2:29.3 | I'm just a full of cold-heart opinions, and like most of them are wrong. I'm Hannah. And I'm Aeia. And this is Rehash, a podcast about the social media phenomenons that strike a nerve in our culture, |
| 2:35.1 | only to be quickly forgotten, but we think are due for revisiting. |
| 2:38.6 | This season is all about internet archetypes and the many, many lives they've lived. |
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