Chaddam

Blend of Chad (“an attractive man”) + Saddam.

blend

This racialization of sexualized violence also extends to white women, as User 4 states that, "in the rich Gulf Arab countries, Slavic foids make big proportion of rich Chaddams' harem."

2024, Meghan Gosse, Michael Halpin, Finlay Maguire, anonymous quotee, “Stochastic Gender-Based Violence: How Incels Justify and Encourage Sexualized Violence Against Women”, in Violence Against Women:

Though conceptualisations of Chad exist across different racial identities – Tyrone (Black), Chadriguez (Latino), Chadpreet (South Asian), Chang (East Asian), Chaddam (Arabic) – white Chad is the default depiction.

2024, Allysa Czerwinsky, “Misogynist incels gone mainstream: A critical review of the current directions in incel-focused research”, in Crime, Media, & Culture, volume 20, number 2, page 209:

(incel slang, often derogatory, offensive) An attractive man of Middle Eastern heritage.


Chadriguez

Blend of Chad (“an attractive man”) + Rodriguez.

Just saw the Chadriguez [i.e., a Latino Chad] at my gym BTFO [blow the fuck out] 2 landwhales who always stare at him.

2021, Alyssa M. Glace, Tessa L. Dover, Judith G. Zatkin, anonymous quotee, “Taking the black pill: An empirical analysis of the 'Incel'”, in Men & Masculinities, volume 22, number 2:

It could've been Tyrone, Chaddam, Chadriguez, Chang or Chadpreet that cucked him

2023, Frazer Heritage, anonymous quotee, Incels and Ideologies: Exploring How Incels Use Language to Construct Gender and Race, page 171:

(incel slang, often derogatory, offensive) An attractive man of Latino or Hispanic heritage.


Chadfish

en-verb

Chadfish (third-person singular simple present Chadfishes, present participle Chadfishing, simple past and past participle Chadfished)

Chadfishes (present singular third-person)
Chadfishing (participle present)
Chadfished (participle past)
Chadfished (past)
chadfish (alternative)

Blend of Chad (“an attractive man”) + catfish (“to create and operate a fake online profile to deceive”).

blend

That one where you chadfished a girl in the mall and made her walk in circles is still the best

2021, anonymous, quoted in Kristine Øgsnes, "'There’s No Self-Improvement for Subhumans': Håpløshet og fortvilelse som sosialt lærte holdninger blant incels", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page 36

In response to this post, Incels.is members expressed admiration for this Incel and diminished the intelligence of the woman he Chadfished.

2024 January 3, Alyssa J. Davis, Heather Hensman Kettrey, “Undoing Violence in the Manosphere: Incels' Disengagement from Extremism in Digital Free Space”, in Mobilization: An International Quarterly, volume 28, number 4:

Incels Chadfish by creating fake dating app profiles using pictures of extremely attractive men.

2024, Michael Halpin, "Are you an NPC?: The Stigmatization of Facts and Knowledge in Right-Wing Online Communities", research paper published on SocArXiv, page 29

(incel slang) To catfish someone (typically a woman) by creating a fake online profile posing as an attractive man.


Chadfish

en-noun

Chadfish (plural Chadfish or Chadfishes)

Chadfish (plural)
Chadfishes (plural)
chadfish (alternative)

his chadfish are god tier blackpill. ensuring many keks at foid suffering

i dump stacy on my chadfish account months later she texts me she wants to marry me and get back together

2021, anonymous, quoted in Eirik Sande, "Verdiløse menn-en: kvalitativ studie av kjønn, erotisk kapital og fellesskap blant incels på internett", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page ii

In response to User 8's post, User 35 states, "your Chadfish would have had taken the virginity of a dozen women by the end of high school. Fresh pussy, untouched by work or duty."

2022 December 18, Michael Halpin, anonymous quotee, “Weaponized Subordination: How Incels Discredit Themselves to Degrade Women”, in Gender & Society, volume 36, number 6, page 824:

(incel slang) An account or persona used for this purpose.


Chadfishing

Chadfishing encapsulates the Incel worldview’s diagnosis of a hypocritical social environment which claims to believe in feminist, egalitarian principles but which in fact facilitates degenerate, looks-obsessed behaviour.

2020, Henry S. Price, "Antifeminism in Neoliberalism: The Case of Incel", thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham, page 251

so i spent all night talking to this goody two shoes foid last night on my chadfishing account and heres what she admitted

2021, anonymous, quoted in Eirik Sande, "Verdiløse menn-en: kvalitativ studie av kjønn, erotisk kapital og fellesskap blant incels på internett", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page iv

The aim of 'Chadfishing' is to show that regardless of how terrible a man is, women will still be prepared to sleep with him because of how good-looking he is (see also Klee 2019).

2023, Robert Lawson, Language and Mediated Masculinities: Cultures, Contexts, Constraints, page 133:

(incel slang) The act of creating a fake online profile to catfish someone (typically a woman) by pretending to be an attractive man.


femceldom

femceldom (usually uncountable, plural femceldoms)

Interestingly, the denial of femceldom as a genuine state has parallels with the ways in which gendered assumptions about autism have led to a massive under-diagnosis of women and girls with autism.

2021, Jilly Boyce Kay, “Abject desires in the age of anger: Incels, femcels and the gender politics of unfuckability”, in Diane Negra, Mary Harrod, Suzanne Leonard, editors, Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture, unnumbered page:

Femcels engage in discussions of race with each other and bond of their shared experiences of race and how this might related to their femceldom.

2023, Madeline Bobo, "Femcels: Where are the Women in the Incelosphere? An Exploratory Content Analysis of Femcel Forums", dissertation submitted to Georgia State University, page 27

Traditional’ and ‘aesthetic’ femceldoms seem to emblematise two distinctive social tendencies – on one hand, the abjection and humiliation of ‘failing’ within a heteropatriarchal sexual ‘marketplace’ (where women are widely assumed to have all the advantages), and on the other, the ironic performance of femceldom, which is aligned with a ‘sad girl’ aesthetic, disappointment in heterosexuality and a particular kind of feminised dissociation.

2024, Jacob Johanssen, Jilly Boyce Kay, “From femcels to 'femcelcore': Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism”, in European Journal of Cultural Studies:

(neologism) The state of being a femcel.


femcelcore

To me, the femcelcore content is reminiscent of the sad-girl Tumblr aesthetic from 2014 just rebranded.

2022 November 18, Hannah Bentley, “Unpicking The 'Femcelcore' Trend”, in Her Campus:

Similarly, the iteration of ‘femcelcore’ on TikTok that we analyse, unlike the ‘traditional’ femcel, appears to be sarcastic, ironic and funny, and the use of memes only underscores this affective orientation: ‘Femcels are screaming into the void, but laughing while they do so’ (Bergeron-Stokes, 2023).

At the intersection of femcelcore and heteropessimism is a hard kernel of defiance. The femcel is unapologetically toxic. She is not concerned with bettering herself.

2024, Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn, “The return of the femcel”, in The Griffith Review:

(neologism) A melancholic aesthetic associated (often ironically) with the femcel movement.


femosphere

From fem + -o- + -sphere, after the pattern of manosphere.

As a constituent community of the ‘femosphere’, we argue that Trufemcels mirrored many of the bleak affects and reactionary, fatalistic, ‘pilled’ discourses of the manosphere.

The femosphere similarly seeks to understand the “hardwired” nature of men—FDS claims that the majority of men are “sex-driven, low effort, and entitled.”

2024, Jilly Boyce Kay, “The reactionary turn in popular feminism”, in Feminist Media Studies:

Similarily, the femosphere possesses intellectual mouthpieces who cloak reactionary perspectives with an intellectual and scientific façade.

2025, Cécile Smmons, CTRL HATE DELETE: The New Anti-Feminist Backlash and How We Fight It, unnumbered page:

(Internet, neologism) The totality of blogs, websites, and communities associated with conservative feminists and femcels.


incelspeak

incel speak (alternative)
incel-speak (alternative)

The thesis is a demonstration and an analysis of the parts of incelspeak that focus on and create a certain image of incels themselves, as well as other men.

2019 July 11, Skalna Agnieszka, A Linguistic Image of Selves and Other Men in the Incel Jargon, Kraków: Jagiellonian University:

Incelspeak is rife with neologisms as well as novel uses of existing words.

2020 December 31, Ewelina Prażmo, “Foids are worse than animals. A cognitive linguistics analysis of dehumanizing metaphors in online discourse”, in Topics in Linguistics, volume 21, number 2, Berlin: Sciendo, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:

i can handle being left on read and blocked by 1000’s of foids [incelspeak for women - female humanoids]

2023 June 30, Aaron Puhrmanna, Christian A. I. Schlaerth, quoting DeuceGigalo, “Taking the ‘Black Pill’: Anomie, Perceived Social Death, and the Incel Phenomenon Online”, in Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal, volume 45, number 5, London: Taylor & Francis, published 26 September 2023, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 780:

The style of language characteristic of incels.


ethnicel

Generally, individuals identifying as ethnicels attribute their low standing in the social hierarchy to white supremacy and anglo/eurocentrism, though rarely describing it as such explicitly.

2021, Tumi Árnason, "Incels, Stigma, and Masculinity on 4chan's /r9k/ Message Board", thesis submitted to Lund University, page 25

Many of these 'ethnicels' identify white supremacy as a barrier to their sexual success.

2023, Stephen Harper, Hot Planet, Cool Media: Socialist Polemics on War, Propaganda and Popular Culture, page 202:

As one user points out to a fellow user: "you have more of a chance to get out of femceldom than most of the ethnicels on here, especially black femcels."

2024, S. Verhoef, "Defining female involuntary celibacy: a data-driven study on/r/trufemcels", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, page 37

(incel slang) An incel of a non-white ethnicity.


incelly

en-adj

incelly (comparative more incelly, superlative most incelly)

more incelly (comparative)
most incelly (superlative)

Whereas in the space of the art institution what is perceived as really disturbing and far-reaching criticality becomes a language only available to white men, such as Jordan Wolfson, associating it with spectacular and solipsistic, capital-intensive self-loathing (a bit incelly?).

2019 July 4, Larne Abse Gogarty, Angela Dimitrakaki, Marina Vishmidt, “Antifascist Art Theory: A Roundtable Discussion”, in UCL Discovery, →DOI, page 22:

Those were not pure reasons; in fact, it was as incelly as it sounds.

2020 October 3, Rav, “Why I Couldn’t Stop Replaying The Saekano Kiss Scene”, in Elitist's Opinions:

Resembling or characteristic of an incel.