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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|cannot get a relationship]] 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|cannot get a relationship]] despite approaching a wide variety of people. | ||
==Virgin shaming by media== | ==Virgin shaming by media== | ||
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, | 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, those are sophisticated forms 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 sorts of [[incelosphere rifts]] going on. | 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. | ||