🧵 MANOSPHERE & INCELS: A glossary for teachers and parents 🧵 
MANOSPHERE (noun)
The name given to websites, blogs and forums ostensibly dedicated to supporting men with relationships, health and fitness, mental health and legal wranglings. Also a place of radicalisation with a dark underbelly.
The name given to websites, blogs and forums ostensibly dedicated to supporting men with relationships, health and fitness, mental health and legal wranglings. Also a place of radicalisation with a dark underbelly.
INCEL (noun)
A portmanteau of 'INvoluntary' and 'CELibate', incels are men who are unable to have sexual or intimate relations with women. In their view, women are shallow, superficial beings who are only interested in what incels are not: handsome, wealthy, powerful men.
A portmanteau of 'INvoluntary' and 'CELibate', incels are men who are unable to have sexual or intimate relations with women. In their view, women are shallow, superficial beings who are only interested in what incels are not: handsome, wealthy, powerful men.
80/20 PRINCIPLE (noun)
The 80/20 principle is the belief that 80% of women find only 20% of men attractive. These are powerful, rich, handsome men known as 'Chads' (below). Incels perceive this to be greatly unfair and is a source of much of their resentment towards women.
The 80/20 principle is the belief that 80% of women find only 20% of men attractive. These are powerful, rich, handsome men known as 'Chads' (below). Incels perceive this to be greatly unfair and is a source of much of their resentment towards women.
CHADS (noun)
Chads are men who are able to secure romantic and sexual relationships with women because of their looks, wealth and power. Incels despise Chads.
Chads are men who are able to secure romantic and sexual relationships with women because of their looks, wealth and power. Incels despise Chads.
STACYS (noun)
A 'Stacy' is a super attractive female who holds lots of sexual power, because of her attractiveness. Like Chads, Stacy's are people that incels really resent.
A 'Stacy' is a super attractive female who holds lots of sexual power, because of her attractiveness. Like Chads, Stacy's are people that incels really resent.
THE MATRIX (noun)
The Matrix refers to the reality of the world as Incels perceive it. Namely that there is a powerful, woke elite actively conspiring to destroy men and masculinity. When Tate was arrested he tweeted, 'The Matrix sent their agents.'
The Matrix refers to the reality of the world as Incels perceive it. Namely that there is a powerful, woke elite actively conspiring to destroy men and masculinity. When Tate was arrested he tweeted, 'The Matrix sent their agents.'
THE RED PILL (noun)
A man who has taken the red pill is awake to the fact that there exists a matrix in which women are seeking to destroy men.
'Red pillers' believe that in becoming more attractive, wealthy and powerful they can take power back from women.
A man who has taken the red pill is awake to the fact that there exists a matrix in which women are seeking to destroy men.
'Red pillers' believe that in becoming more attractive, wealthy and powerful they can take power back from women.
THE BLUE PILL (noun)
Us idiots who don't recognise that there is a matrix at play, are what known as Blue Pillers.
Us idiots who don't recognise that there is a matrix at play, are what known as Blue Pillers.
THE BLACK PILL
Incels who have swallowed the Black Pill are a nihilistic version of red pillers. They recognise that women have all the power and that their own unattractiveness dooms them to a life of misery.
Black pill communities online focus on mass shootings and suicide.
Incels who have swallowed the Black Pill are a nihilistic version of red pillers. They recognise that women have all the power and that their own unattractiveness dooms them to a life of misery.
Black pill communities online focus on mass shootings and suicide.
ELLIOT RODGER (noun/verb)
Elliot Rodger has godlike status amongst incels. Rodger killed 6 people and then himself in an act of incel revenge against women who refused to recognise his 'supreme gentleman' status...
Elliot Rodger has godlike status amongst incels. Rodger killed 6 people and then himself in an act of incel revenge against women who refused to recognise his 'supreme gentleman' status...
...Rodger's name or the abbreviation 'ER' is often used as a verb to mean 'mass killing'. As in, 'I'm so angry, I want to go full ER.'
FOID (noun)
A shortening of the phrase 'female humanoid', 'Foid' is how incels refer to women. The term is designed to strip women of their humanity. Example usage: 'I've swallowed the red pill. I realise that the foids are out to get us.'
A shortening of the phrase 'female humanoid', 'Foid' is how incels refer to women. The term is designed to strip women of their humanity. Example usage: 'I've swallowed the red pill. I realise that the foids are out to get us.'
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