incel-speak
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See also: incel speak and incelspeak
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- Alternative form of incelspeak.
- 2018 May 6, Clarence Page, “The ‘incel’ mind: As if hating women will get you a girlfriend”, in Chicago Tribune, 170th year, number 126, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Tribune Company, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, section 1, page 21, column 1:
- That’s incel-speak. “Chads” in their world are guys who are cool and good-looking enough to attract what incels feel unfairly denied: sex with attractive and sexually active “Stacys.”
- 2019 June 6, Zoe Strimpel, “Our hot-or-not dating culture is turning men into basket cases”, in Irish Independent, Dublin: Independent News and Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:
- Using incel-speak, which prioritises harsh binaries (“hot or not”) and biological terms (“females” and “males”, instead of women and men), each headshot on this “scale” is helpfully captioned.
- 2021 July 20, Stephen Harper, “Portrait of the Incel as a Young-Girl”, in Hot Planet, Cool Media: Socialist Polemics on War, Propaganda and Popular Culture, London: Clairview Books, published 2023, →ISBN, page 200:
- Without using the terminology, one of these men had long confessed to being ‘blackpilled’ (incel-speak for disenchanted) about romantic relationships with women and often talked about male and female sexual attractiveness in reductive, biometric and heavily racialized terms.
- 2022, Cathy O’Neil, “Rejection and Denial”, in The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation, New York, N.Y.: Crown, →ISBN, part II (Networked Shame), page 141:
- Basically, in incel-speak, the Chads get all the Stacys.