Intro
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
1.1 An introduction to the 'manosphere'
1.2 The importance of looking at incels
1.3 Data for this book
1.4 Analysing the data: Corpus-assisted (critical) discourse studies (CADS)
1.5 Why write this book and what does it contain?
References
2: Positioning incels
2.1 Incels within the broader manosphere
2.1.1 Red pill
2.1.2 Blue pill
2.1.3 Black pill
2.2 Hegemonic masculinity
2.3 In-/out-groups
2.4 Normativity

2.5 Essentialism and determinism
2.6 Contradictions
2.7 Chapter summary
References
3: Reflexivity and the ethics of investigating incels
3.1 Protecting the participants: The ethics of including usernames
3.2 Protecting participants: Red flags
3.3 Informed consent?
3.4 Dissemination of findings
3.5 Data management
3.6 Protecting the researcher and positionality
3.7 Chapter summary
References
4: Language, gender, and (hetero)normativity
4.1 Chads, manlets, and cucks: The hierarchy of men and masculinity
4.1.1 Chads
4.1.2 Alphas

4.1.3 Guys
4.1.4 Cucks
4.1.5 Manlets
4.1.6 Incels
4.1.7 Betas
4.1.8 Faggots
4.2 Commonalities and dfferences in terms denoting male social actors
4.3 Female social actors: Beckies, Stacies, and foids
4.3.1 Stacies and Beckies
4.3.2 Foids
4.4 Chapter summary
References
5: Language, ethnicity, race, and racism
5.1 [Lexeme denoting race/ethnicity] + cel
5.1.1 Currycel and ricecel: food for person metaphtonymies
5.1.2 [Adjective] + cel
5.2 Intersectional analysis of out-group social actors by race/ethnicity and gender
5.2.1 Tyrone

5.2.2 Adjective + man/men
5.2.3 Adjective + woman/women
5.3 Interracial relationships
5.4 animal metaphors
5.5 Chapter summary
References
6: Conclusions, limitations, and future research
6.1 Summary of key findings and their implications
6.2 Limitations: What additional research could be done?
6.3 Implementations: Where do we go from here?
6.4 Concluding remarks
References
References
Index