femcel

femcel

English

Etymology

Blend of female +‎ incel.

Noun

femcel (plural femcels)

1. (slang) A female incel.
   • 2018, Nick Chester, "Meet the women of the incel movement", Huck, 5 December 2018:

     Fiona, a femcel I speak to on Reddit, has a similar outlook on misogyny within the incel community.

   • 2020, Jake Hall, "Investigating the insidious rise of the gay incel", Dazed, 19 February 2020:

     These compulsive men – and a handful of equally obsessive ‘femcels’ – have been likened to terrorists, and their forum posts have been unpicked ad nauseam.

   • 2020, Arwa Mahdawi, "Why do we only care about incels when they are men?", The Guardian, 19 February 2020:

     While male incel culture has been exhaustively analysed, femcels have largely been ignored.