Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard
keegomatic@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoNot 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.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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”.
RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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.
keegomatic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Maybe if they’re really young and weren’t on the internet when the word was created, sure
ipitco@lemmybefree.net 4 weeks ago
who else call people virgin anyways?
keegomatic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Good point, but I still think incel carries a certain connotation of misogyny with it, though. Otherwise you would just say “virgin”