How two British orthodontists became celebrities to incels
so, after the past few years incel has shifted from &quot;involuntarily celibate&quot; , to &quot;young men who congregate online and who explain their lack of romantic success through a toxic and misogynistic ideology.&quot; , NYTimes definition mid-article, not mine.<p>Pretty shitty, given that the title &#x27;incel&#x27; is rarely self-appointed in comparison to the amount that its&#x27; bandied about by those who seek to insult by mockery or phrase.<p>This points to an over-simplifying of the language.<p>People who have poor romantic luck and charisma <i>ARE NOT ALWAYS THE SAME</i> as people who gather around social outlets online in order to share &#x27;toxic and misogynistic&#x27; opinions -- but public opinion and media are referring to both parties as &#x27;incels&#x27;.<p>This means that the simply unlucky and uncharismatic folks are being pigeon-holed by society and the media to get out of the &#x27;incel&#x27; title simply to stave off comparison between themselves and <i>the bad incels</i>.<p>It&#x27;s weird that a pro-sex movement finally won over the hearts of the public by demonizing and chastising those unfortunate enough to not have found a sexual partner.<p>I wish people (and the media at large) would make a larger effort to mention that someone can be involuntarily celibate <i>and</i> mentally stable and balanced.<p>The momentum lately to paint all involuntarily celibate people as mentally unstable and angry is a trend that will force <i>a lot</i> of people into life-changing mistakes more promptly than they would have been before the social pressure that equated routine sex with a partner as an indicator of mental stability and trustworthiness.