Motion to stop calling them incels and start calling them junk male.
@OhNoSheTwitnt While I love this. Absolutely love this. I feel like it’s too kind.
@OhNoSheTwitnt We have a motion and second. Any discussion. Please limit your discussion to 500 characters.
@DanFell @OhNoSheTwitnt move to end discussion and call the question.
@OhNoSheTwitnt @BlueWaterFan we have a motion to end discussion and call the question. Reminder a 2/3 majority is required to end debate.
@OhNoSheTwitnt Human spam would also be acceptable.
@OhNoSheTwitnt Sounds good to me! It's especially heinous they stole the label from men who are just lonely.
@anothermike @OhNoSheTwitnt They stole the label from *women* who were just lonely, which is something else again.
@eyrea @OhNoSheTwitnt My apologies.
@anothermike @OhNoSheTwitnt Meh, it's not widely known. I happen to live in the same city as the woman who coined the term (and who eventually dropped it once she found a partner). She gets interviewed by local media from time to time.

@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.

@OhNoSheTwitnt

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 funfact, I started following you on the blue bird app when you said this the first time. Motion seconded big time.
@OhNoSheTwitnt Friendly amendment: call them "junkless" male.
@OhNoSheTwitnt love this. Did you see the Let Him Die passage in the Talmud which (arguably) addresses the Incel?

@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 Nice. I’ve been calling them basement dwellers but this is more perjorative.
@OhNoSheTwitnt gods, my wife is in Reddit subs. Say this, and they'll think their junk is important to you.
@OhNoSheTwitnt ARGH I HATE WHEN I MISS AN OBVS ONE (but LOVE that some's out there to catch the ones I missed... good job, team!)
@OhNoSheTwitnt I went with himroids as they call women femoids.
@OhNoSheTwitnt They do seem to be preoccupied with theirs, to the exclusion of noticing other people exist... 😏
@OhNoSheTwitnt The involuntary part seems incongruous because a lot of them seem to be volunteers.

@OhNoSheTwitnt
I VOTE NAY!

I motion to start calling them "NO JUNK males"

@OhNoSheTwitnt once I catch my breath after I stop laughing, that should be considered a fin-tastic idea

@OhNoSheTwitnt

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

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@OhNoSheTwitnt

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."

@OhNoSheTwitnt "junk male" is more funny, even if you don't get the joke.
@OhNoSheTwitnt I laughed at this. Then I thought about it some more. Everybody dehumanizes everybody down here on ol' planet earth, and what we get is war. Reducing people to something that can be discarded instead of cared for is part of an old playbook.
@OhNoSheTwitnt Hand raised : β€œAye”!