Fiona, a femcel I speak to on Reddit, has a similar outlook on misogyny within the incel community.
2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 162:
[…] not to mention foids calling themselves femcels for not getting a Chad and copying many of our viewpoints and perspectives and terms(LOL Pinkpill? Moids?), […]
2019, Farshad Labbaf, "United By Rage, Self-Loathing, And Male Supremacy: The Rise of the Incel Community", INvoke: Gender, Colonization, and Violence, Volume 5 (2019), page 19:
One of the most actively repudiated members of Incel forums are Femcels as well as Incels from the LGBTQ community, commonly referred to as “Gaycels” who are actively met with great hostility, shut out, and blocked from Incel forums.
2020, anonymous, quoted in Hekla Bjarnadóttir & Sophie Hanson, "'We are denied to be human because society sees us as trash': Den kollektiva identiteten på Incels.co", thesis submitted to the Uppsala University, page 32:
Really just proof that femcels don't exist. Simply being in the right company will change their habits enough for them to be seen as attractive and fuckable
2020, Karolin Grunau, "Involuntary Celibacy: Personality Traits Amongst Misogynistic Online Communities", thesis submitted to the University of Twente, page 21:
Future research might focus on the differences between Incels and Femcels regarding their personality traits and misogyny and investigate whether Femcels’ scores significantly differ from male Incels’.
These compulsive men – and a handful of equally obsessive ‘femcels’ – have been likened to terrorists, and their forum posts have been unpicked ad nauseam.
While male incel culture has been exhaustively analysed, femcels have largely been ignored.
2020, Lee Williams, "Inside the Incelosphere: Tracing the Origins and Navigating the Contradictions", thesis submitted to the University of Regina, pages 93-94:
Women “absolutely love playing the victim” a man using the screenname michael2222 vehemently claims, asserting that women have taken a men’s issue, Incel, and made it about themselves (through the creation of femcels) because “they feel the need to be victimized by absolutely everything” (November 12, 2019).
2020, Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 10:
While femcels do exist, they are generally not accepted by male incels, particularly those who have accepted the blackpill.
2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:
A “femcel support group” on Facebook, with over 800 members, offers a safe space for women who self-define as involuntarily celibate, […]
2021, Jilly Boyce Kay, "Abject Desires in the Age of Anger: Incels, femcels and the gender politics of unfuckability", Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture (eds. Suzanne Leonard & Diane Negra), unnumbered page:
However, it is also telling that the femcel, yet again, is made to disappear from view. The sexually unsuccessful woman, it seems, is of no sociological or political interest.
2021, Hugo Engholm, "The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus", thesis submitted to the University of Uppsala, page 24:
Women who identify as Incel, most often referred to as Femcels, are rare and most often not accepted within the Incel community. They are seen mainly as Volcels, voluntary celibates, as there is more or less always some man out there who would want to be with that woman.
2021, Elizabeth Ann Hintz & Jonathan Troy Baker, "A Performative Face Theory Analysis of Online Faceworkby the Formerly Involuntarily Celibate", International Journal of Communication, Volume 15 (2021), page 3057:
Here, these former femcels reposition their identities as women incels, subverting the masculinist depiction of inceldom as being an identity occupied only by men.
