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Incels furious at TV show for accurately depicting incel culture (newsthump.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by ZeroCool@lemmy.ca to c/theonion@midwest.social

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The online incel community has taken a break from blaming women for their ongoing failures in life to issue a collective tantrum over Netflix’s new drama Adolescence, which dares—dares, mind you—to portray incel culture as the toxic, rage-filled echo chamber it so demonstrably is.

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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 1 points 1 week ago

There came to be an alternate term of 'volcel' for that, at least to the extent that you recognize that your situation isn't conducive to a relationship even if the causes are not really voluntary. It never really caught on in popular use though.