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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by krapp on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:30PM (#23502759)
>If not, go visit a forum for incels and see how happy they are.

Incels are a cult of hateful, misogynistic extremists who consider mass murderers like Eliot Rodger to be heroes. Simply not having as much sex as one would prefer, or any at all, does not make one an incel.

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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by tootahe45 on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:32PM (#23502800)
> Simply not having as much sex as one would prefer, or any at all, does not make one an incel.

It literally does though. You can't change definitions because someone gave the name a bad rep.

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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by krapp on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:44PM (#23502962)
"Someone" didn't give the name a bad rep, and I'm not the one changing its definition. The entire incel movement changed the definition by giving itself a bad rep.

If you want to take 'incel' back and try to reclaim its neutrality and separate it from the toxicity of the culture, you'll have as much luck as someone trying to claim the alt-right movement isn't really about racism, even though racists have been all over it since the beginning.

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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by ravenstine on Friday June 12, 2020 @04:07PM (#23503277)
"Incel" isn't a movement.
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Re:Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century,... by klmadfejno on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:46PM (#23502998)
Maybe you can use context to differentiate two different meanings of the same word though
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