ricecel
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From rice + -cel, referencing the fact that rice is a staple food in East Asia.
Noun
[edit]ricecel (plural ricecels)
- (incel slang, often offensive) An incel of East Asian (especially Chinese) heritage.
- 2018 September, Shannon Zimmerman, Luisa Ryan, David Duriesmith, “Recognizing the Violent Extremist Ideology of ‘Incels’”, in Women In International Security Policy Brief, page 4:
- Smaller groups of “Ricels” and “Currycels” representing East and South Asian incels exist, and explicitly tie their celibacy to preference for whiteness in society.
- 2020, Małgorzata Waśniewska, "The Red Pill, Unicorns and White Knights: Cultural Symbolism and Conceptual Metaphor in the Slang of Online Incel Communities", in Cultural Conceptualizations in Language and Communication (Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk), page 67:
- The latter term encompasses currycels and ricecels—people of Indian and East Asian descent respectively, who are often involved in the practice of whitemaxing (trying to change their appearance with creams and surgeries to achieve a more Caucasian look).
- 2020, Whiteaker A. James, “The Story of the 'Incel Saint': A Rhetorical Analysis of Elliot Rodger's My Twisted World”, in Shayna Engdahl, editor, Source 2020: Conference Proceedings[1], page 150:
- As with some other incel terms, this manages to come remarkably close to a structural critique of racism and white supremacy, but the underlying reasoning that ricecels use is almost always grounded in the evolutionary psychology of women, rather than socially constructed structures of oppression.