Can you just please stop calling Arthur Fleck an incel

Rating: 10/10 (21 October 2019)

I see all these reviews suggesting Arthur Fleck is an incel but I haven't yet seen a single review justifying that categorisation of the character. Yes, he is single, white and like most single people doesn't want to be that. The missing part is he doesn't show any signs of misogyny nor racism. Furthermore, despite the fact that at least 4 mass murders committed in North America by men who either "self-identified as incels or who had mentioned incel-related names and writings in their private writings or Internet postings", Arthur Fleck's participation in the movement against the elites is by and large accidental as he did not kill the three "Wall Street" guys to make a political statement but it was rather an act of personal nature. That is not to say that he doesn't ride the wave that he unwillingly created by the end of the film but the original intention to incite mass violence was not there, nor any other negative connotations associated with the incel subculture. I fully agree that the film is a brilliant deconstruction of prevalent social and political narratives and whatever you think the true narrative is, you will be proven wrong in the next segment of the movie. Astonishing acting and score. A masterpiece.