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Incels are celebrating lockdown because attractive people can’t have casual sex
On popular forums like 4chan and Reddit, involuntary celibates are flocking to rejoice at people forced to live sexless lives – like them.
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On popular forums like 4chan and Reddit, involuntary celibates are flocking to rejoice at people forced to live sexless lives – like them.
During the last few days, as lockdowns started to look inevitable, the general public began to prepare for a potentially grim few months. They worried about loneliness among those isolated from others, the ability to get food safely, and what it might mean to spend the entire spring indoors, unable to get any real reprieve from cabin fever.
But on Reddit, 4chan, and misogynistic online forums, incels have been celebrating the fact that attractive people are about to be stuck inside – living their lives just like incels, and crucially, unable to have casual sex.
On forums such as Reddit’s r/shortcels (short incels) and incel website Incels.Co, news of a UK lockdown last night kicked these posts into overdrive. Incels had been gloating about this prospect since coronavirus first appeared in the west, and now they had a case where Chads and Stacys – men and women demonised by incels for being sexually active and stereotypically attractive – would be forced indoors for the foreseeable.
Posts gleefully remarked about how British “foids” (a derogatory slang term for sexually active women) would be “crying and suffering” and how “roasties” (a similar slang term) would be “seething”. “I would like to thank the [person] that ate a bat,” one Reddit user wrote, “and consequentially [sic] made roasties have mental breakdowns because they can’t get ravage by a Chad for weeks.”
