incels shouldn’t be allowed to speak.

I have never met more incels in my life, before working at a movie theater—seriously, if you want to meet a real life incel, work at a movie theater. They’re the very sad and very misogynistic ones, barely lifting a finger the entire shift. Incels will say under their breath, ‘‘…shouldn’t a female be doing this?” Most of the time they’ll ask you for your favorite movie and give you a head jerk when you don't say Little Women or Booksmart. To be clear, there's nothing wrong with liking these films, they are just known to have a higher feminine demographic or they’re female led films. Meaning, to them, these are apparently the only films I’ve watched.

Incels will tell you their favorite movie is either Blade Runner or Whiplash (two extremely popular movies by the way) or just about anything Ryan Gosling stars in—then follow their sentence with “You’ve probably never heard of it.” Yes. Yes, I have. Everyone actually has heard of these Oscar nominated and winning films.

But what really brings me joy when these incels try to test my film knowledge, and I end up knowing more than they do. They’re met with shame when I am able to list the main actor’s entire filmography, and they can’t.

You’re not special for liking Fight Club. You are not Batman. Get a life.