What "nerd" community is left?

[CharlesPhipps]

It used to be a neutral term then it became a very toxic and frankly scary community. Mostly after the Tim Horton's massacre.

[Makeshift Python]

“Boo hooo, I can’t get laid because I think of women only as objects and call them bitches for turning me down, if only they would give a toxic person like me a chance they’d know I am a perfectly acceptable monster!”

[Darth Wedgius]

Incel means involuntarily celibate. It doesn't say why. Making up your own definitions is fine, but you should be clear that its your definition and not necessarily what other people mean.

[Darth Wedgius]

I was asking for evidence that "toxic behaviors" were the "real" reason.

Here's a good article on the atlantic that discusses non-social anxiety reasons. It also lists some other reasons.

https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/why-geeks-get-bullied-its-not-necessarily-for-being-geeks/272723/

That did not include toxic behavior that I could see and gave no evidence as to how applicable it was. No real statistics, as far as I could tell.

[TGLS]

Incel means involuntarily celibate.

Nazi means Nation Socialist. Yet I hardly see anyone going around calling patriots who like social welfare Nazis.

[Makeshift Python]

Pretty much. Whatever its original meaning, it’s been carrying the stigma thanks to those like the one who posted a live Facebook video manifesto claiming he was worth a woman’s time before preceding to perform a killing spree.

[Madner Kami]

And throwing a lot of people into the same category as a despicable human being, because they happen to have a shared trait (in this case being an incel) is the right course of action since ... ? I mean, Hitler loved dogs, thus everyone who loves dogs... Right?

[Makeshift Python]

That’s just the way it goes. You can either be the guy that doesn’t have the best of luck with the ladies yet doesn’t gripe about it like any sensible adult, or you could be part of a group that believes it’s all a conspiracy created by bitches and dude bros to make your life miserable.

For a very long time I didn’t have much luck in dating, often only being seen as “just a friend” by so many female friends, but I never got myself worked up about it. I remained patient and took on the attitude of “if it happens, it happens”, and eventually found a connection with someone after over a decade of being single.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Incel means involuntarily celibate.

Nazi means Nation Socialist. Yet I hardly see anyone going around calling patriots who like social welfare Nazis.

It has always been a derogatory term insinuating backwards minded people.

Anyways involuntary celibate and nerdom are practically synonymous as far as the formal definition of the word.

[Darth Wedgius]

Incel means involuntarily celibate.

Nazi means Nation Socialist. Yet I hardly see anyone going around calling patriots who like social welfare Nazis.

Fair point, and the People's Democratic Republic of North Korea... isn't.

I guess I should say that Yuka's definition is just Yuka's definition, and leave it at that.