See incel on Wiktionary
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"text": "The framing of inceldom as an “adverse life circumstance”, repeated across the Wiki, lends credibility to the framing used by incels who wish to dissociate themselves from the common descriptions of incels as a ‘movement’, ‘ideology’ or ‘community’. […] This report finds that the Wiki is a site of attempts to divorce the concept of being an incel from believing in the blackpill, and we argue that this is intended as a means of both expanding the category of incels to make them politically relevant, and dissociating the label ‘incel’ from violent misogyny.",
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"ref": "2025 April 19, Manuela Castro, “Regla 80/20, la teoría misógina de \"Adolescence\": qué sabemos en realidad sobre los vínculos entre hombres y mujeres”, in CNN en Español:",
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