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You may argue incels are a class of people, as you can arrange anyone into a theoretical class, but incels are not an organization. Incels are simply anyone who [[Celibates|can't get laid]] despite approaching a wide variety of people. | You may argue incels are a class of people, as you can arrange anyone into a theoretical class, but incels are not an organization. Incels are simply anyone who [[Celibates|can't get laid]] despite approaching a wide variety of people. | ||
==Virgin shaming by media== | ==Virgin shaming by media== | ||
The media often disingenuously tries to paint | The media often disingenuously tries to paint incel people as a terroristic singular community, by capitalizing "incel" as"Incel" outside the start of a sentence. Or pretending incel is an acronym, like "INCEL", to take advantage the fact that the word "incel" is accidentally linguistically similar to the word "ISIS", to provoke fear of involuntary celibates. Essentially, a sophisticated form of involuntary [[virgin shaming]]. | ||
==Aybees== | ==Aybees== | ||
The only real cohesive incel community anywhere on the web is arguably the [[aybee]] (Absolute Beginners) community of [[German incelosphere|Germany]]. Most other platforms have some | The only real cohesive incel community anywhere on the web is arguably the [[aybee]] (Absolute Beginners) community of [[German incelosphere|Germany]]. Most other platforms have some sorts of [[incelosphere rifts]] going on. | ||
==Colloquial use of the term "the incel community"== | ==Colloquial use of the term "the incel community"== | ||
knajjd, [[Master (forum mod)|Master]],<ref>https://incels.is/threads/we-live-in-a-society-censorship-media-lies-and-the-continued-demonization-of-incels.149305/</ref><ref>https://incels.is/threads/analyzing-the-incel-hitpiece-from-vox-part-one.118709/</ref> and [[Mental out (moderator)|mental out]]<ref>https://incels.is/threads/does-the-incel-community-fit-the-definition-of-a-cult.140946/</ref> have colloquially referred to "the incel community", but this does not imply a single organization or cohesive group any more than, say, the use of the term "the scientific community" or "the international community" does. | knajjd, [[Master (forum mod)|Master]],<ref>https://incels.is/threads/we-live-in-a-society-censorship-media-lies-and-the-continued-demonization-of-incels.149305/</ref><ref>https://incels.is/threads/analyzing-the-incel-hitpiece-from-vox-part-one.118709/</ref> and [[Mental out (moderator)|mental out]]<ref>https://incels.is/threads/does-the-incel-community-fit-the-definition-of-a-cult.140946/</ref> have colloquially referred to "the incel community", but this does not imply a single organization or cohesive group any more than, say, the use of the term "the scientific community" or "the international community" does. | ||