People who are 'incel' are often suspected as being gay. It's annoying.

Though, involuntary celibates (or incels) shouldn't try to rationalize a dateless season or pass off sexual awkwardness as virtue; […]

It is not clear when the term incels was coined, but the link between misogyny and violence against women has emerged on sites where incel communities gather.

The incel ideology has already inspired the murders of at least sixteen people. Elliot Rodger, in 2014, in Isla Vista, California, killed six and injured fourteen in an attempt to instigate a “War on Women” for “depriving me of sex.”

2018, Alex Hern, Who are the 'incels' and how do they relate to Toronto van attack?, The Guardian:

Another study by Donnelly of seventy-seven incels in marriages or long-term relationships in the Journal of Marriage and Family used a web-based questionnaire to ask people why they stayed in their sexless relationships (defined in this case as no sex for six months).

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