The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight

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Notes

1. In this chapter, Alexander Monea cites online communities such as 4chan, the incel community, the pick-up artists community and its figurehead Roosh V, the NoFap movement, the MGTOW movement and the political organization Proud Boys. Monea describes how these factions, while seemingly coalescing around different ideologies, operate within a cohesive system.

2. I am here referring both to cyberqueer perspectives (Braquet & Mehra, 2006; Morton, 1995; Turkle, 1995) as well as more recent descriptions about the empowering qualities of the internet for queer individuals (Ashford, 2006; Craig et al., 2021; Hanckel & Morris, 2014; Havey, 2021; Miles, 2018).