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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

I'm just curious if there are any guys here who are into geek fandom and how being gender critical has affected things for you.

You mean incels?

[–]Airbus320 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

No Americans

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[–]Kai_Decadence[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What?

[–]FlippyKing 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Are there legit gc incels?

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I have no idea, never heard of one but I guess there's a first time for everything.

[–]Michael_frf 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There probably are lots of people are male and involuntarily celibate but friendly to feminism. That just means they are pining for something they fear they will never get, but agree they aren't entitled to steal it or demand the state redistribute it.

But those wouldn't be "incels", which is not merely a contraction but also implies subscribing to "the Incel movement"'s politics. Those obviously conflict with feminism.

There's a similar divergence in meaning between "voluntary celibate" and "volcel". The latter is an insult used between incels. It implies that the target is only having romantic troubles due to his own laziness or other fault, and doesn't deserve the empathy of "true" incels who (supposedly) are already doing the best they can at their end.

[–]FlippyKing 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I did not know there was a real "incel community" that could toss around terms like "Volcel" and micro-examine their mutual miseries. I hope someone recommends the writings of Saint Maximus the Confessor to them, so they can see their obsessing over unfulfilled desires as a distraction from what ever they could be doing and focusing on in any given moment.