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Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project (AICP) was founded in 1993, and as such was the second-oldest incel website after [[Alt.support.shyness]]. It was the first incel website to use the moniker "incel" and along with [[Parsimonyforum 3708]], and the usenet groups [[Alt.support.shyness]] and [[Alt.seduction.fast]] formed the primary websites in the [[incelosphere]] in the 1990s. In the 2000's, AICP became the [[You're Not Alone]] forum. | Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project (AICP) was founded in 1993, and as such was the second-oldest [[incel]] website after [[Alt.support.shyness]]. It was the first [[incel]] website to use the moniker "incel" and along with [[Parsimonyforum 3708]], and the usenet groups [[Alt.support.shyness]] and [[Alt.seduction.fast]] formed the primary websites in the [[incelosphere]] in the 1990s. In the 2000's, AICP became the [[You're Not Alone]] forum. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
[[Alana]] created the the site<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20030212170914/http://www.ncf.carleton.ca:80/~ad097/ic-home.html</ref> as a research project at her college for involuntary celibates in 1997, shortening the [[involuntary celibacy]] term coined by [[Antoine Banier]] (originally calling it "invcel"), but never seemed to assist any published research from the early 90s to now except maybe for the [[Donnelly Study]]. Sometime before May of 1997 she described herself publicly on her website as a 'lesbian' with dating experience who had been reading a lot of feminist writings.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20030206192844/http://www.ncf.carleton.ca:80/~ad097/invcel.html</ref> Alana started the first [[incel]] 'forum' as a mailing list (forum) later on in 1997. So Alana started the mailing list (the forum) as a lesbian, contrary to some accounts suggesting she stopped considering herself as straight or started dating *after* the forum was created. In 1997, her site won an award from an LGBT organization. In 1998, users from [[Alt.support.shyness]] were invited to participate in Alana's mailing list. Alana stopped maintaining the site in 2003 and the community and board wwas handed off to someone else who created [[IncelSite.com]] after it started becoming too negative in tone for Alana. | [[Alana]] created the the site<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20030212170914/http://www.ncf.carleton.ca:80/~ad097/ic-home.html</ref> as a research project at her college for involuntary celibates in 1997, shortening the [[involuntary celibacy]] term coined by [[Antoine Banier]] (originally calling it "invcel"), but never seemed to assist any published research from the early 90s to now except maybe for the [[Donnelly Study]]. Sometime before May of 1997 she described herself publicly on her website as a 'lesbian' with [[dating]] experience who had been reading a lot of feminist writings.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20030206192844/http://www.ncf.carleton.ca:80/~ad097/invcel.html</ref> Alana started the first [[incel]] 'forum' as a mailing list (forum) later on in 1997. So Alana started the mailing list (the forum) as a lesbian, contrary to some accounts suggesting she stopped considering herself as straight or started [[dating]] *after* the forum was created. In 1997, her site won an award from an LGBT organization. In 1998, users from [[Alt.support.shyness]] were invited to participate in Alana's mailing list. Alana stopped maintaining the site in 2003 and the community and board wwas handed off to someone else who created [[IncelSite.com]] after it started becoming too negative in tone for Alana. | ||
==INVCEL to Incel== | ==INVCEL to Incel== | ||
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==Who Qualified as Incel?== | ==Who Qualified as Incel?== | ||
*Someone who has never dated, or not dated in a long time, but would like to, is involuntarily celibate | *Someone who has never dated, or not dated in a long time, but would like to, is involuntarily celibate | ||
*Someone going through long periods of not dating anyone | *Someone going through long periods of not [[dating]] anyone | ||
*Those who, for one reason or another, have difficulty meeting someone for a sexual relationship | *Those who, for one reason or another, have difficulty meeting someone for a sexual relationship | ||
*Those with no or very little experience with sex and dating | *Those with no or very little experience with sex and dating | ||
*Someone with experience of dating and sex, but not for many years | *Someone with experience of [[dating]] and sex, but not for many years | ||
*Those who are in a relationship, but for one reason or another their partner desires sex very infrequently or not at all | *Those who are in a relationship, but for one reason or another their partner desires sex very infrequently or not at all | ||
*Those who are sexually inactive while wishing to be otherwise | *Those who are sexually inactive while wishing to be otherwise | ||
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==Negativity Arising on the Board== | ==Negativity Arising on the Board== | ||
Compared to today’s Incel boards, the overall tone of the conversation was different: Incel was not a permanent thing, and women were part of the Incel community. Because of this, fatalistic and defeatist attitudes as well as misogyny and anti-feminism weren’t as pervasive as they are now. But there still was negativity and Alana left. At this point in time, self-describing as incel wasn’t a negative thing even though the state of being incel was negative. It remained that way for over a decade, which ranged from the end of the 90s to the end of the 2000s. | Compared to today’s Incel boards, the overall tone of the conversation was different: Incel was not a permanent thing, and [[women]] were part of the Incel community. Because of this, fatalistic and defeatist attitudes as well as misogyny and anti-feminism weren’t as pervasive as they are now. But there still was negativity and Alana left. At this point in time, self-describing as [[incel]] wasn’t a negative thing even though the state of being [[incel]] was negative. It remained that way for over a decade, which ranged from the end of the 90s to the end of the 2000s. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||