By David Futrelle
In June, former security guard Sheldon Bentley was convicted of manslaughter in an Edmonton, Canada, court for kicking a man to death while he lay unconscious in an alley. At his sentencing hearing yesterday, Bentley asked for leniency, submitting a presentence report saying that at the time of the killing he had been angry at the world and suffering from “involuntary celibacy.”
It’s not clear whether this alleged mitigating factor had any effect on the sentencing decision. While the judge did acknowledge that Bentley “was frustrated with his lot in life” due to his alleged “involuntary celibacy” and other stresses, he also noted that such frustration “does not give anyone licence to impose violence on anyone else.” Bentley was sentenced to four years, with two already served.
While Bentley did use the term “involuntary celibacy,” it’s also not clear if he had been a part of the so-called incel subculture online at the time of the killing, or if he simply picked up the phrase from the media in the wake of the Toronto van killings earlier this year.
Regardless, it’s appalling to hear someone try to use their inability to get laid as an excuse for literally stomping a man to death.
Over on Incels.me, the reliably repugnant forum for the worst of inceldom, some of the regulars have already enthusiastically embraced Bentley as one of their own, in spirit at least.
“Can you feel it boys? ITS TIME,” wrote Crustaciouse, an extremely prolific Incels.me commenter with more than 6500 posts to his name.
“[I]t’s time to go ER on them.really.they declared war on us offically,” added someone called Cuyan.
“Am i wrong for feeling excited about this?” asked Copingtillidie.
“Why couldn’t [he] have done it to a foid,” wondered Damo the incel.
The most enthusiastic celebrant was someone called Vodaccenu, who offered up this all-caps mini-manifesto calling for his fellow incels to emulate Elliot Rodgers and other mass murderers:
KICK THE CUCKS
TIME FOR THE BETA MALE REVOLUTION
GO ER
GO LEPINE
GO CHO
But for every Incels.me commenter celebrating the killer there was someone suggesting that this was “fake news” if not an outright false flag, designed to make incels look bad.
Someone called (presumably ironically) MarriedAndLookin4Fun complained that this was
Obviously more fake news created by the media to blame us for everything. There is no video or recorded evidence of him saying that he was an incel.
I don’t know if there’s a tape, but the phrase “involuntary celibacy” does apparently appear in the report that Bentley himself submitted to court.
“Canada again,” sighed someone called Opus132. “Somebody up there really trying to pin everything on incels.”
Zielony4, another prolific commenter, with more than 3600 Incels.me posts to his name, couldn’t quite decide whether to celebrate or decry the killing a false flag.
He should have done it to a woman instead. Lol. I bet this guy killed someone just to claim he is an incel and to make us look bad.
You know how to stop from looking bad, guys? Stop celebrating murders and murderers. Stop calling for more murders. Stop adding “lol” to your comments about the murder of women.
Bentley has no excuse for his actions. Incels.me commenters have no excuse for, well, themselves.
H/T — Thanks to Shadowplay for bringing this story to my attention!
Such Bundy worthy personalities and they wonder why they can’t get a partner. Wait that’s not fair, Bundy managed to project something of a normal persona and these guys just fly their flag and let the world know they’re garbage
Bundy had girlfriends, I think he even had a fiance at the time he was first captured, so clearly he was more normal and safe seeming that the Incels.me guys. That’s pretty horrifying.
Also I live near there and hadn’t heard anything about this. I’m kind of surprised I hadn’t seen something, despite my semi-regular avoidance of news programming.
suffering from being a semi-sentient sack of shit.
Fixed it.
Found a good article on the sentencing. It points out the incels are a misogynistic subculture who cheer on murderers. https://www.thespec.com/news-story/8870023-security-guard-who-stomped-man-to-death-blames-involuntary-celibacy/
Yeah, no, this guy wasn’t involuntarily celibate. He was quite voluntarily nasty, and people instinctively avoided him for it. Fuck that noise.
That defense makes no sense. It boils down to “I was murderously angry because I was murderously angry”.
Meanwhile, it’s the start of the beta uprising, but also fake news. “Everybody rush into the streets and join this revolution that’s not really happening, because it makes us look bad.”
My city hasn’t made it onto this blog since the “glory” days of Men’s Rights Edmonton. I really wish it wasn’t murder that got us back on the map.
win.
Can we put to rest the idea that we should feel bad for them because of their low self esteem now? Clearly incels think they’re so important that someone would murder a person and go to jail just to make incels look bad.
Tabby Lavalamp,
I’ve always wondered what the deal is with Edmonton and MRAs*. It seems like they go hand in hand. I hope they’re just outliers and not running rampant there!
* Yeah, incels and MRAs. I’m conflating you. Same shit, different assholes as far as I’m concerned. Deal with it.
Only four years for beating someone to death in cold blood, completely unprovoked? Am I missing something, or is this an incredibly lenient sentence? Why?
Sometimes I wonder if all this analysing of incels is just sensationalism about a bunch of random angry internet losers who only have one website.
And then a man who may not even know about the official incel community commits violence in perfect accordance with incel doctrine (for lack of a better word).
That’s the kind of societal influence that would make a neonazi blush.
@Genjones
Hell if I know. Sounds like an incredibly lenient sentence.
The article david posted doesn’t explain why only 4 years, which is incredibly strange for a case of homocide.
@Genjones
I was thinking the exact same thing. I mean beating a person to death takes a lot of determination and effort and time. It’s not as easy as just a flick of the finger. The fact that he didn’t feel remorse part way through and stop is frankly chilling.
Involuntary Celibate… “Incel”….
nah…
Voluntary Misanthropic… “Vomit”…
It’s Amazing how they continue to claim they can’t get laid because of their wrist size and not the fact that they regularly celebrate murders.
If you read the article I posted, he didn’t beat the man to death, he stomped on his stomach once with really heavy boots, causing massive internal bleeding.
It’s still way too lenient a sentence, imo, but I suspect the reasoning was that with different footwear, he probably wouldn’t have killed the man.
Plus manslaughter sentences are generally a joke compared to sentences for murder. And apparently it’s common for people who kill someone with one hit to get lenient sentences: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10663783/One-punch-killers-receive-average-sentences-of-less-than-four-years.html
Um, they’re all dead and gone. There’s literally nowhere left for them to go. Unless this guy is urging other guys to make like these three, this makes zero sense…and if he is, he should be arrested for aiding and abetting a crime, or for counselling others to commit one.
By all means, “incels”, feel free to go wherever. Just don’t take anyone else with you. Be forever alone, as befits you. You don’t deserve a fucking revolution.
@Skylalalalalalala
Ah, okay, I was about to ask the same thing.
For all of Australia’s (many, many) problems, at least we’ve been on the forefront when it comes to raising both awareness of and sentences for one-punch murders.
@Jane Done
Bentley wasn’t accused of murder, but of manslaughter which is a lower felony. It would probably been too hard to prove beyond reasonnable doubt that the man had the intent of killing instead of simply “accidently” killing the guy. That’s why, despite the fact the crime was horrible, the sentence seems light. It’s a rather frequent tactic to avoid risky trials.
Better way to deal with frustration:
Make bread.
Kneading the dough for 30 minutes is a good work out. You also need to pummel it.
Very relaxing.
And you can eat the result.
And noone dies!
Oh, fuck these people very much. I was ‘incel’ and a virgin until my late thirties and I never felt a need to hurt or kill anybody else because of it. Then again I’m a cis woman so by their lights I’m incapable of feeling all their precious precious feelings of sexual deprivation.
There’s a reason nobody wants to sleep with you, boys: it’s that you’re all toxic entitled sacks of shit ready to lash out at any given moment, women have a by necessity highly tuned sense of who’s dangerous to them, and they want to live. It’s as simple as that.
Imagine being so fucked-up that you have no problem theorizing that someone killed another person and claimed inceldom as a catalyst just to make incels look bad. Like, not even using inceldom as a defense after the fact, but deadass killing someone just to fuck shit up for incels.
… “fayque news” from Guardian…. hey, everybody LOVES the dumpster-fire… don’t they??
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/31/donald-trump-approval-rating-sinks-to-lowest-of-his-presidency
(note, the preceding contains sarcasm…)
and…
Do so-called incels really warrant all the media attention they’re getting? I can’t help but think they’re getting all of this coverage because they’re overwhelmingly white men.
This guy…he’s not the first person to be frustrated with his life. He won’t be the last.
Do Nazis? MRAs? Wankstain and his cohorts?