He said he had been consuming the blackpill overdose, referring to a fatalistic sector of the incel community who describe themselves as blackpilled and believe there is no hope of life getting any better for them because their genetics rule out any woman ever being attracted to them.

Most incels start by, as they call it, taking the red pill, a metaphor borrowed from The Matrix science-fiction films, in which swallowing a coloured capsule allows the protagonist to see the world as it really is. They claim to have discovered that the whole world is a feminist gynocracy ruled by women, where men are helpless victims.

Some believe it is possible to improve their relationship prospects through strategies like gymmaxxing (working out), but those describing themselves as blackpilled have a nihilistic worldview and tend to see violence against women as a better solution than self-improvement.

Online incel forums are steeped in extremist misogyny, with members regularly suggesting women should be raped and murdered. They encourage each other to rise up in a day of retribution or incel rebellion, when they will punish society, and women in particular, for their suffering, by murdering as many normies (non-incels) as possible.

I know this because I spent two years undercover in incel forums to research these communities and the threat they pose, for my book Men Who Hate Women.

It started when I realised some of the boys I work with on gender inequality and sexual consent in UK schools were parroting extremist beliefs and fake statistics (didnt you know 87 per cent of women lie about rape, one of them said). I soon realised that these teenagers had been radicalised online. But it wasnt a kind of radicalisation anyone was talking about.

So I posed online as Alex, a disillusioned young white man who was tired of being called privileged when he felt deeply unsatisfied with life.

I had to pass tests to be allowed access to certain forums, explaining in detail what kind of incel I was so I began the painstaking process of learning incel terminology and the bizarre pseudoscientific theories incels use to justify their worldview.

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I went undercover in the incel community to try to understand men like Jake Davison - Telegraph.co.uk

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