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== Definition == | == Definition == | ||
The | The Donnelly Study defined incels as adults who fail to find a sexual partner for six months or more without choosing so. | ||
There remains disagreement about whether this definition is appropriate due to conceivable loopholes. For example, [[Bluepill|Bluepillers]] often argue in bad faith about such definitions and say male incels could simply have gay sex or pay for a prostitute and, therefore, they are [[volcel|volcels]] and incels don't exist. Hence, a definition in good faith would include an addition that incels are adults who are overwhelmingly rejected by the ''members of the sex they are sexually attracted to''. | There remains disagreement about whether this definition is appropriate due to conceivable loopholes. For example, [[Bluepill|Bluepillers]] often argue in bad faith about such definitions and say male incels could simply have gay sex or pay for a prostitute and, therefore, they are [[volcel|volcels]] and incels don't exist. Hence, a definition in good faith would include an addition that incels are adults who are overwhelmingly rejected by the ''members of the sex they are sexually attracted to''. | ||
There is [[gatekeeping]] and infighting going on in incel forums about who counts as incel. | There is [[gatekeeping]] and infighting going on in incel forums about who counts as incel. | ||
[[Uglycel]]s complain that [[love-shy]]s simply lack ''will'' to find a partner. | [[Uglycel]]s complain that [[love-shy]]s and [[standardcel]]s simply lack ''will'' to find a partner. | ||
In an effort to weed out | In an effort to weed out standardcels, some incel forums reject incels who have not seriously and repeatedly attempted dating. | ||
In doing so, they | In doing so, however, they inandervatently marginalize non-standardcel mentalcels. | ||
This is the source of a lot of conflict in the [[incelosphere]]. A solution to this longstanding conflict would be an incel definition that rejects [[standardcel]]s but includes non-[[standardcel]] [[mentalcel]]s as incel. This has been formalized before, but has not been popularized or adopted yet by any major forum, perhaps because such a definition would be very long. | This is the source of a lot of conflict in the [[incelosphere]]. A solution to this longstanding conflict would be an incel definition that rejects [[standardcel]]s but includes non-[[standardcel]] [[mentalcel]]s as incel. This has been formalized before, but has not been popularized or adopted yet by any major forum, perhaps because such a definition would be very long. | ||