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While I understand the term fits as "derisive", I'm not understanding why you think it's a hypocritical term. It seems pretty clear that "involuntary" is correct, and a definition for celibate is "having or involving no sexual relations", so that seems to fit as well.


Precisely because it's routinely used to attack them as having agency in the matter of being an "incel".


They do have agency. But they choose rage instead.

They need to get off the manosohere and actually engage with women like fellow human beings, not prize catches in a mating game.


It doesn’t matter how you interact with women; if they already have a partner, they are obviously not going to date you.




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