femceldom
nounEtymology From femcel + -dom.
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Neologism, Usually The state of being a femcel.
- 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 May 1, Madeline Bobo, “Femcels: Where are the Women in the Incelosphere? An Exploratory Content Analysis of Femcel Forums”, in Georgia State University (thesis), →DOI, page 27:
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- 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:
- Related terms
- femdom