Is it simply: involuntarily celibate, or does it come with a package?
To me, “incel” has always meant someone who’s simply just celibate against their will, but it feels like the term now also implies a specific worldview or even a subculture. Does identifying as an incel automatically come with those negative beliefs around gender and society, or should those two have separate terms? Has the definition changed?"
We already have the term “virgin” for people who haven’t had sex. The reason they made a new term is so the “involuntarily” part makes them a victim. See, it’s not just that they aren’t having sex (which they TOTALLY deserve, btw), but they’re being actively denied it.
It’s a term born in anger and a need to blame someone else. If you don’t feel that need, you don’t use the term.
this true. you can have sex at one time and then be in a period of involuntary celibacy. I mean it means sexual abstinate currently but not never having had sex like virigin does.