femcel

English

Etymology

From fem(ale) +‎ -cel; a relatively new consolidation.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛmˌsɛl/

Noun

femcel (plural femcels)

1. (incel slang) A female incel.

   Synonym: AFChick

   • 2018 December 5, Nick Chester, “Meet the women of the incel movement”, in Huck:

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

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

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

   • 2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:

     A “femcel support group” on Facebook, with over 800 members, offers a safe space for women who self-define as involuntarily celibate, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:femcel.
2. (loosely, Internet, slang, ironic) A woman associated with and/or adjacent to the incel "aesthetic", "vibe", or other connotations.

Usage notes

Apparently used colloquially with a peculiarly wide leniency in semantics.