• primrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    incel is more poetic and gives more a sense of scale. ‘misogynist’ without elaboration feels smaller, less accurate.

    its a compression issue, dear. sorry.

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      3 months ago

      Ugh yeah I don’t agree that defying definitions of words makes something “poetic”. The fact is that this entire thread indicates the issue, and the upvotes I got indicate I’m not alone

      • nomous@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I agree, to me “he’s an incel” is weak because to the not-terminally-online vast majority of people it’s easily proven false.

        He’s married and has kids, he’s not any more “involuntarily celibate” than Trump is.