Earlier this month, I wrote about the word queerspawn, and what I thought about it. I’m working on a replacement name for the offspring of gays and lesbians that doesn’t conjure infection or insects (“spawn”). Although I’ve only seen the word used affectionately by COLAGs (not a good replacement, I’ve decided), it reminded at least two …
The rising recognition of “incels” as a distinct type of domestic terrorist, while disturbing, is not completely surprising to me. Men who are violent against women because women deny them something they think they are entitled to are sadly common. Incels are a particularly disgusting version of misogynist; they have formed communities which organize online …