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I always knew the ending will come in the form a nuclear hellfire, I just never imagined it would be done by some incel chud.
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"incel" have stopped being about genuinely love-deprived people for a long time, now everyone knows we're talking about the lower ranking misogynists
I get that. That's why I made a comparison to the term "gay", which is also frequently used as an insult without actually trying to refer to homosexual people.
I think the literal meaning matters, especially when being a (literal) incel is still something many are insecure about.
That's what makes it different to e.g. the term "bastard". That term also refers to a specific group, but nowadays noone (in the western world) would be insecure about being born to umarried parents.
As long as involuntary celibacy is something people are insecure about, we shouldn't use "incel" as an insult.
How tf do you know who is insecure about what?
I talk to people, I partake in society.
If there's a large amount of people insecure about being born to unmarried parents that I simply haven't encountered or heard of, I'd be perfectly willing to quit using the term "bastard" as an insult, too.