I recently noticed a post from a blahaj user whose profile was styled after Celeste from Madeleine. She does trans stuff and posts quite a bit, including to a sub¹ called “femcelmemes”.

I’ve seem the word more than a few times in the past year, and I thought it meant “female incel”.²

However, the sub in question just seems to post girly stuff and be accepting to all feminine energents “where anybody can post memes that fit the vibe.” So what the hell is this vibe? I don’t see any incel-adjacent stuff except maybe some facetious self-deprecation, but do you have to get incel vibes to do that?


¹ Until we can truly standardize what we call them: magazines, communities (Lemmy, please pick a better name. This is too vague.), forums, hashtags, etc…, I’m calling them something we can all understand. ² Thinking about the etymology of “incel”, “femcel” should actually be “female celibate”, but who in the sam hill cares.

  • @[email protected]
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    4 months ago

    A femcel is just a female incel, as far as I’m aware. Although, considering that the original incel was a woman, it should be “incel” and “mancel”

    EDIT: and “non-sex” for all my fellow enbies

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      24 months ago

      For the edit, wouldn’t it be “noncel”?

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        34 months ago

        Except that they are cels. A noncel would just be someone who isn’t an incel. Plus “non-sex” sounds like “nonsense”