I’m not hip to the lingo

  • @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    Depends on which definition you go by, I guess. I prefer the literal meaning of the word; involuntary celibate. A person who is celibate against their own will.

      • @[email protected]
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        132 months ago

        I don’t think that’s fair. It’s not just sex they are after; they want a relationship but are unable to get into one.

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            112 months ago

            Your typical incel is that quiet guy in school with bad skin, plain clothes, and oily hair, whose only friends were the other outcasts. Like everyone else, they just wanted a normal relationship with a normal woman. It’s the repeated failure to form those relationships that leads to the resentment and anger we now see. They weren’t always like that. The bitterness and hatred is a coping mechanism for their situation, not the cause of it.

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                52 months ago

                I’m sure that’s true in some cases, but I wouldn’t generalize it as the explanation for most incel’s situations that they simply had too unrealistic standards