Kevin Handler (real name Travis Fodor)

I wish this story was satire, I really do. The idea that this is a real person and not just a character in a low-budget horror movie is truly terrifying.

The man in the picture is Kevin Handler (real name Travis Fodor), a member of the “incel” movement. Incel stands for involuntarily celibate, or in other words, ugly white men with small dicks that are angry at women for not wanting to fuck them.

And among their creepy corner of the internet one man has emerged as a face of sorts for their dangerous views. He has amassed a large following of other incels on reddit and social media, where he shares hate-filled misogynistic memes and strange videos of him either walking around menacingly in public while wearing a ski mask or performing sexual acts on the sex doll he is in a relationship with.

That last part wasn’t a typo. He even has her listed as his significant other in his Facebook’s bio section. An endless stream of pictures depicting the two sitting down to enjoy meals together, watching TV together and even spending time outdoors, presumably in public, paints a picture of a very disturbed man.

Now, sure, we can all point and laugh at the pathetic, rightwing white man resorting to inanimate objects for affection. We can discuss how having disgusting worldviews and beliefs leads to isolation and loneliness because, shocker, women don’t want to date bigots.

But I think what’s important here is that this is what rightwing politics leads to. This is a peek into what happens when white men spend too much time being perpetually online spreading hate-speech. The social media echo-chamber keeps validating their increasingly radical beliefs, until they end up becoming actual monsters.

The fact that this kind of behavior hasn’t resulted in him being arrested or involuntarily admitted is frankly offensive. He’s clearly unhinged and a significant threat to the community, we’re probably looking at a serial killer in the making.

His notoriety has grown so much that there is an entire section of KiwiFarms dedicated to “the lore of Kevin Handler.”

The discussion was started afters users on Facebook, reddit and a forum known as looksmax became concerned over the disturbing content he had been sharing. And their concern isn’t unfounded, as he already has a documented history of violence.

The Machete Incident

On June 23rd 2020, Travis Fodor chased 15 children through a forest preserve while wielding a machete. He was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal damage to property. According to police he chopped up one of the childrens’ phones with the machete.

About 7 p.m. June 23, officers with the Forest Preserve District of Will County were sent to Runyon Forest Preserve in Lockport in response to a call of up to 15 juveniles reporting that a man chased them with a machete, according to Forest Preserve District Police Chief Tracy Chapman.

Travis Fodor, 23, of the 200 block of Morgan Street admitted he chased one of the juveniles, who was on a bike, after the juvenile insulted him, Chapman said. She said she didn’t know why the juvenile insulted Fodor.

She said Fodor then used the machete to damage a cellphone that belonged to another juvenile that was left on a picnic table.

This is exactly why we can’t allow these views to have a platform. Not just on Facebook, but anywhere. They should be banned from every platform, fined for every instance of hate-speech and suspended from using the internet by their internet service provider.

If instead of getting a meaningless 30 day ban for terrorizing women, minorities and the LGBTQIA+ community, they were suspended from accessing the web at all, maybe they would begin to unlearn their ignorance.

These New Age neo-Nazis always have backup social media accounts for when their bigotry finally gets them banned. Let’s see how they like being put in digital timeout, unable to access the OnlyFans accounts they claim they don’t have.

I’ll leave you with a few more disturbing images of this Elliot Rogers in the making.