Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard

• keegomatic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not really. Incel implies a level of indoctrination into a misogynistic POV that has you convinced that you’re better off alone. It’s not the same as insulting someone for simply not having had sex yet.

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  • damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Incel implies a level of indoctrination into a misogynistic POV

    No one is thinking this deeply when they call a man who just said/did something they don’t like an “incel”. People just use it mindlessly as an insult, same as with “virgin”.

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    • RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think people who haven’t been been the target of insults ince high school (or maybe ever?) forget how petty and uncreative it often is.

      The point insulting someone isn’t to be truthful, it’s to be hurtful or put them down.

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    • keegomatic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe if they’re really young and weren’t on the internet when the word was created, sure

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      • ipitco@lemmybefree.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        who else call people virgin anyways?

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• DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not at all. Incels are almost overwhelmingly misogynistic and into a lot of weird pseudo scientific shit. Incels are those claiming they deserve women but at the same time don’t deserve them because they’re too beta and all the rich alphas are getting 10 chicks a second, so they excuse their lack of success with dating in a lot of made up bullshit to delude themselves into never improving as people.

  Incels are not just virgins, they’re basically a cult, and thinking people use it just as ‘virgin’ is either deliberately obtuse or ignorant

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  • Soulg@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree with everything you said, but also, there are absolutely people who just call weird guys incels regardless of whether or not it actually fits.

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  • ipitco@lemmybefree.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    thinking people use it just as ‘virgin’ is either deliberately obtuse or ignorant

    That’s just what people say these days. Who is the ignorant?

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    • DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, fair enough, but also, we really shouldn’t be making it even entertaining new definitions for words based on online ragebait.

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