I didn't realize that all during high school I was an "incel." I thought I was just a dork.
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Involuntary Celibate.
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Thanks!
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Short for 'INvoluntary CELibate'. Basically... men (almost always men) who can't find a woman who will have sex with them and thus begin to hate all women and also men who _are_ successful at finding sex partners.
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Thanks!
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Not a problem. It’s admittedly a strange thing to base a movement around. If you’d call them that. I don’t know.
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It's kind of like hating women but more terrorist-y. I'm not sure Peter knows this
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Follow this guy (or visit his twitter page, whichevs) for the most articulate unpacking of what the "incel" movement is all about.
@ArshyMann -
@DavidFutrelle is also a good follow. He's been reporting on the MRA/Incel/Redpill/etc. movement for years over onhttp://wehuntedthemammoth.com -
Here's a piece he wrote about the Toronto attacker over at
@ELLEfrancehttps://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a20060379/involuntary-celibates-want-you-to-think-theyre-victims-theyre-anything-but/ …
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An bunch of crazies on the internet who blame women for their inability to get laid and use that blame to justify actions like those in Toronto, sexual assault, and rape. They believe men are owed sex from women and that the world is collapsing because they aren't getting any
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They're extremely common on 4chan and rather common on the darker corners of reddit as well. Elliot Roger is and example of one and someone they idolize. One of the many extremist groups reddit and 4chan give a platform to
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