Thanks for writing this Carlyn. We need to shed as much light on this as possible.

About fifteen years ago my step-daughter was struggling with behavioral issues and her father and I enrolled her in a therapeutic summer "wilderness" camp. The place was expensive and bullshit but that's another story.

The majority of the boy campers were there for gaming addiction. They'd isolated themselves to the point of being anti-social, angry and many had burgeoning porn addiction. Some of these boys were as young as 12 but they went up in age to 16.

Isolate an immature boy, put a joystick in his hand, feed him porn with its unrealistic and most often depraved depiction of sex and leave them alone for all of this to fester. It seems a perfect breeding ground for incels.

The camp used what you, in your article, identified as Chads, to supervise the campers. These were charming, easy going, pleasant young men who were enrolled in college. Sensitive, sweet, good looking, the kind of young men you'd want your daughter to date. These were the role models assigned to build up their self-esteem.

I've always wondered if there might have been a therapeutic benefit to having the boy's councilors be women who could best them on the hiking trail, in firemaking, etc while at the same time working with them on their behaviors.