Seconded
@eyrea @OhNoSheTwitnt Oh, that's neat!
I remember the Forever Alone subreddit and hearing the term for the first time. And for a while, I just thought "Ah, men who want to meet women but can't," forgetting that women were in the same boat.
Yes please. I've always thought incel was a misnomer. There's nothing involuntary about their celibacy if they choose to live a life repulsive to the opposite sex.
@OhNoSheTwitnt "Involuntarily celibate," eh? Do you pay attention to hygiene, grooming, and dress? Do you keep fit? Do you socialize? Can you dance, tell a joke, play an instrument, or have an intelligent conversation? Do you treat others with kindness and respect?
No?
Sounds like "voluntarily celibate" to me.
@OhNoSheTwitnt This is clever, but no human is junk.
It's #patriarchy that tells us to be ashamed of ourselves, and it's patriarchy that says the best way to prove a man's worth is for him to violate the vulnerable.
Their sense of worthlessness is a component of their violence. So, we'll have to find another way to diffuse #incel violence than ridicule.
@OhNoSheTwitnt Isn't anyone else worried that as sperm counts decline due to Covid, the incels who never leave their dungeons and didn't catch Covid, will become the spunk saviors of the human race. Then as we are forced to move underground because of climate change, war and pollution, they will be at home in their dungeon paradise and will become our overlords.
I might have been overthinking this...
@OhNoSheTwitnt
I VOTE NAY!
I motion to start calling them "NO JUNK males"
Seems incredibly accurate.
@OhNoSheTwitnt re:"Motion to stop calling them incels and start calling them junk male." or, call them something nice that does not compound the problematic trauma. maybe even, their name? #dontneedgeneralisations #dontneedpejoratives #dontneedothering #compassionftw
Edit:
Or The Undesirables.
It's sure a lot more catchy than "Radiantly twerpish person who can't get a date and is handling that problem by cranking the twerp knob to scorchingly repulsive level 11."
Perfect