I should add that 1) I say "might" because I don't keep up with MRAs or any similar subcultures so idk, and 2) I learned the term from people who were the FURTHEST POSSIBLE thing from MRAs. Mostly trans folks, in fact, so Q.E.D. it carries no inherent idea of sexuality or gender
I feel like folks (especially older ones) are making way too much of the term "incel" rn. It's just a compact way of saying you don't have a sexual partner, but you'd like to find one. I get MRAs might use it in an attempt to sound cool, but using the term doesn't make you one
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If you're wondering what made me want to say this, read the below article. I don't want to say it's bad, as I'm fond of the author's content, but it doesn't argue the links it lays well, to the point where it reads more like a bashing of men w/ no sexual partners for its own sake
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I'd never try to defend the men she describes here, I hope that goes w/o saying, but the link just feels so vague it reads like saying you *must* think like this to still be unhappily single (coming from someone in a poly relationship, that hurts a little)https://goingmedievalblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/on-incels-and-courtly-love/ …
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Yikes, is this where I make the topic about me? Well... just a bit. I've used the term once or twice because (not knowing who coined it) it felt like a convenient, neutral-sounding (kind of self-satirising) term for my own relationship status, and I don't blame myself for that
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