incel-speak

That’s incel-speak. “Chads” in their world are guys who are cool and good-looking enough to attract what incels feel unfairly denied: sex with attractive and sexually active “Stacys.”

2018 May 6, Clarence Page, “The ‘incel’ mind: As if hating women will get you a girlfriend”, in Chicago Tribune, 170th year, number 126, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Tribune Company, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, section 1, page 21, column 1

Using incel-speak, which prioritises harsh binaries (“hot or not”) and biological terms (“females” and “males”, instead of women and men), each headshot on this “scale” is helpfully captioned.

2019 June 6, Zoe Strimpel, “Our hot-or-not dating culture is turning men into basket cases”, in Irish Independent, Dublin: Independent News and Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35

Without using the terminology, one of these men had long confessed to being ‘blackpilled’ (incel-speak for disenchanted) about romantic relationships with women and often talked about male and female sexual attractiveness in reductive, biometric and heavily racialized terms.

2021 July 20, Stephen Harper, “Portrait of the Incel as a Young-Girl”, in Hot Planet, Cool Media: Socialist Polemics on War, Propaganda and Popular Culture, London: Clairview Books, published 2023, →ISBN, page 200