I recently noticed a post from a blahaj user whose profile was styled after Celeste from Madeleine. She does trans stuff and posts quite a bit, including to a sub¹ called “femcelmemes”.
I’ve seem the word more than a few times in the past year, and I thought it meant “female incel”.²
However, the sub in question just seems to post girly stuff and be accepting to all feminine energents “where anybody can post memes that fit the vibe.” So what the hell is this vibe? I don’t see any incel-adjacent stuff except maybe some facetious self-deprecation, but do you have to get incel vibes to do that?
¹ Until we can truly standardize what we call them: magazines, communities (Lemmy, please pick a better name. This is too vague.), forums, hashtags, etc…, I’m calling them something we can all understand. ² Thinking about the etymology of “incel”, “femcel” should actually be “female celibate”, but who in the sam hill cares.
I assumed it was the female equivalent of an incel and was prepared to block the community when I first saw it pop up, but it doesn’t seem to be that at all. Just seems more like trans memes, specifically from a transfem perspective.
The term does mean ‘female incel’, but the community is different from male incels in terms of how they communicate and how hateful they are. There’s plenty of research on this, if you want to read more.
The person who coined the term ‘involuntary celibate’ was a woman.