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As such, a new strategy was devised by the [[fakestream media]] in an effort to categorize terms such as ''involuntary celibacy'' or ''incel'' as nonstandard. This new fakestream media tactic involves capitalizing the word incel. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of linguistics should know that uppercase should really only be used for an individual person a place, an organization or immediately after a period or as the first word of a document. The average layman may be left confused as to why capitalisation is misused to such an extent. However, upon closer inspections one sees why purveyors of such linguistic misuse, such as Eleanor Peake, are motivated by political leanings which advocate inceldom erasure, in essence the invisibility of involuntary celibacy, and [[apathy to male suffering]].<ref>https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/01/how-she-ghosted-me-men-being-radicalised-tinder-data-0</ref> | As such, a new strategy was devised by the [[fakestream media]] in an effort to categorize terms such as ''involuntary celibacy'' or ''incel'' as nonstandard. This new fakestream media tactic involves capitalizing the word incel. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of linguistics should know that uppercase should really only be used for an individual person a place, an organization or immediately after a period or as the first word of a document. The average layman may be left confused as to why capitalisation is misused to such an extent. However, upon closer inspections one sees why purveyors of such linguistic misuse, such as Eleanor Peake, are motivated by political leanings which advocate inceldom erasure, in essence the invisibility of involuntary celibacy, and [[apathy to male suffering]].<ref>https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/01/how-she-ghosted-me-men-being-radicalised-tinder-data-0</ref> | ||
The defining and foundational aspect of involuntary celibacy is evident in the first word of the term ''involuntary''. By using capitalisation, it surreptitiously implies volition and agency in the predicament that incels find themselves in. In other words, such journalists are obfuscating the actual meaning of involuntary celibacy in an attempt at ignoring, removing, falsifying, or reexplaining its meaning, and isolating inceldom from the first word in its sum of parts: ''involuntary''. By using capitalisation, one implies an organization, meaning that the involuntary celibate has joined an organized group. This ignores that the word ''involuntary'' is synonymous with unintentional, and that for the majority of incels, they consider their predicament to be a condition and one another to be an unfortunate (and maybe even a socially disadvantaged) demographic. | |||
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