• EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website
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    9 months ago

    Your regular reminder that just being fat does not make you an incel, plenty of very fat guys have partners.

    What makes a person an incel is the irrational hatred of women and thinking it’s their fault they don’t get laid while at the same time not noticing or trying to improve upon their own issues.

    This can go the other way too where women hate men for the same reason, but I don’t know what that’s called.

    It is ironic though that her pair of one was simply describing fat guys, but I have no idea how much audio was clipped or what the contract here is.

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      9 months ago

      Strictly speaking, incel refers to someone involuntarily celibate, regardless of gender. Femcel is the common 4chan term for female incels. It’s been used to describe the often misandrist subculture of r/FemaleDatingStrategy as an example.

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        9 months ago

        I believe it’s not involuntary though. I bet it feels involuntary because change is hard, but I bet very very few people actually fall into that bin.

        At some point i think they just accept the label and stop trying to improve while pointing to the convenient answers.