femceldom
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]femceldom (usually uncountable, plural femceldoms)
- (neologism) The state of being a femcel.
- Hypernym: inceldom
- 2021, Jilly Boyce Kay, “Abject desires in the age of anger: Incels, femcels and the gender politics of unfuckability”, in Diane Negra, Mary Harrod, Suzanne Leonard, editors, Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture[1], unnumbered page:
- Interestingly, the denial of femceldom as a genuine state has parallels with the ways in which gendered assumptions about autism have led to a massive under-diagnosis of women and girls with autism.
- 2023, Madeline Bobo, "Femcels: Where are the Women in the Incelosphere? An Exploratory Content Analysis of Femcel Forums", dissertation submitted to Georgia State University, page 27:
- Femcels engage in discussions of race with each other and bond of their shared experiences of race and how this might related to their femceldom.
- 2024, Jacob Johanssen, Jilly Boyce Kay, “From femcels to 'femcelcore': Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism”, in European Journal of Cultural Studies[2]:
- Traditional’ and ‘aesthetic’ femceldoms seem to emblematise two distinctive social tendencies – on one hand, the abjection and humiliation of ‘failing’ within a heteropatriarchal sexual ‘marketplace’ (where women are widely assumed to have all the advantages), and on the other, the ironic performance of femceldom, which is aligned with a ‘sad girl’ aesthetic, disappointment in heterosexuality and a particular kind of feminised dissociation.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:femceldom.