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Why men get furious at women who say they prefer the “dad bod”

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date May 2, 2025
14 Comments on Why men get furious at women who say they prefer the “dad bod”

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“Dad bods” are stirring up trouble again. Last week, Evo Psych researcher William Costello posted an informal poll on X asking men and women (separately) which version of Olly Murs they thought looked the most attractive–a “normal” version of the English singer, looking basically fit but with a slight hint of a belly, or a muscled-up version of him after 12 weeks of intense workouts at the gym. The poll went viral, garnering some 725,000 views. And not surprisingly, if you’ve ever waded into the dad bod discourse before, the men mostly thought that muscley Murs looked better; women even more overwhelmingly preferred the “before” version.

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The War on Chad: The super-secret plot against alpha males in college and in life

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date March 8, 2023
29 Comments on The War on Chad: The super-secret plot against alpha males in college and in life

I love the Purple Pill Debate subreddit because it is full to overflowing with the absolute worst takes on the whole man/woman thing. But the post I ran across today took bad takes to a new level.

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Bad news for Chads: Women don’t like you either

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date June 4, 2022
25 Comments on Bad news for Chads: Women don’t like you either

It’s a sad day for Chads: An incel “theoretician” has revealed one more feminine secret — that women don’t really like Chads much more than they like (or don’t like) ordinary schmoes.

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Some incels are hailing the Oxford High School shooter as the new Elliot Rodger

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date December 3, 2021
34 Comments on Some incels are hailing the Oxford High School shooter as the new Elliot Rodger

I haven’t seen the incels this excited by a shooter in a long time.

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Incels: The Powerpoint challenge

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date November 30, 2021
50 Comments on Incels: The Powerpoint challenge

It occurred to me, while browsing around Incels.is earlier today, that a lot of incel posts would be a little less depressing to contemplate if they took the form of powerpoint presentations.

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Even if incels cease being incels, they’ll still be incels, incel claims

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date April 4, 2021
51 Comments on Even if incels cease being incels, they’ll still be incels, incel claims

Feels bad, man

Some people think the solution to the whole incel thing is to somehow “redistribute sex” and get these sad boys the girlfriends they pine for s desperately — whether by cajoling or perhaps even compelling women to give these guys a chance, or simply by paying sex workers to take care of their unwanted celibacy.

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Incel: The only winner in the upcoming sexual revolution will be Chad

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date March 26, 2021
38 Comments on Incel: The only winner in the upcoming sexual revolution will be Chad

The incels.co domain is down, at least for now, but the regulars are still unhappily chatting away on the backup domain Incels.is. And they still have stories to tell one another about men, women, and Chad.

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Chad tech guru blames Reddit incels for sending GameStop’s stock to the moon

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date January 27, 2021
61 Comments on Chad tech guru blames Reddit incels for sending GameStop’s stock to the moon

This marketing professor will beat up your marketing professor

So you’ve heard about the whole GameStop thing, right? The denizens of a stock trading subreddit have collectively levitated the stock price of troubled game retailer GameStop up roughly a kajillion percent since last fall, screwing over several hedge funds that were betting on the company’s stock going down the toilet. (You can get all the gory details of what’s going on here.)