Forget incels, meet ‘femcels’

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Full title of the article: "Forget incels, meet ‘femcels’ – the generation embracing ‘toxic femininity’".

I found this article very interesting. There aren't many articles on femcels in the mainstream media I have come across personally, and yet they certainly do exist.

There are some differences described between femcels and (male) incels in the article, which might be informative to some people not familiar with the topic?

An excerpt from the beginning of the article:

"Rhiannon Lewis is not important. The men she sleeps with won’t text her back. She lives alone, surrounded by the belongings of her dead dad and her dead dog. Her sister bullies her, as does her old high school bully, who continues to harass her. At work, she’s ignored by her colleagues, passed over for a promotion and, perhaps worst of all, her boss insists on calling her “Sweetpea”. She is, in short, a loser. A loser, that is, until Rhiannon gives into her violent, homicidal impulses. Once she starts killing people, she’s much more fulfilled, happy. She’s seen."

Link below:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/femcels-incels-sweetpea-b2635500.html

A link to the article:
Forget incels, meet ‘femcels’ – the generation embracing ‘toxic femininity’

Interesting article. "Few know that the incel movement was actually created by a woman. In the nascent days of the internet, the founder of the world’s first incel forum was a queer woman known as Alana. A lonely college student in Ottawa, in 1997 Alana started a support group and named it Alana’s Involuntary Celibacy Project, after the lifestyle she herself was living."

That sounds like sweetpea

"KnowYourMeme’s biggest rival, the institution that is Urban Dictionary, is more accurate though: there, a femcel is defined as a woman who doesn’t have sex, voluntarily or otherwise, but more importantly, a “chronically online” woman who is generally “a social reject, especially in real life, and mostly [has] online friends (if any IRL friends at all)."

Yeah I can't read all that with my dyslexia but I've got a thought on the matter but I've not thought it through properly yet

Oh yeah what I was thinking was it only makes sense that there's a female version of this but it can easily be missed because of promiscuity

I think they could choose a more fitting word for it but I get why they choose femcel

Yeah definitely and I hate the way mencels get such a bad press as well

Doesn't seem like a real thing. But it does make a good movie plot. It'll be interesting when it comes out. I'm predicting at least 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.