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*'''Volcel''': A ''"volcel"'' is a person who is voluntarily celibate.<ref>http://www.donotlink.com/d0in</ref>
 
*'''Volcel''': A ''"volcel"'' is a person who is voluntarily celibate.<ref>http://www.donotlink.com/d0in</ref>
  
*'''The Wall''':{{anchor|Wall}} Females hit ''"The Wall"'' when they get really old, like 30 or so, suddenly become totally gross, have a precipitous drop in [[#SexMarkV|''sexual market value'']], get flung off of the [[#Carousel|''cock carousel'']], and have to marry a boring [[#Beta|''beta'']]. This is a thing that totally happens. (As a "fun" side note, in Japan, a woman who has hit the Wall is known as a "Christmas cake."<ref>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChristmasCake</ref>)
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*'''The Wall''':{{anchor|Wall}} Females hit ''"The Wall"'' when they get really old, like 30 or so, suddenly become totally gross, have a precipitous drop in [[#SexMarkV|''sexual market value'']], get flung off of the [[#Carousel|''cock carousel'']], and have to marry a boring [[#Beta|''beta'']]. This is a thing that totally happens. (As a "fun" side note, in Japan, a woman who has hit the Wall is known as a "Christmas cake", because supposedly [[Bullshit|no one wants it after the 25th]].<ref>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChristmasCake</ref>)
  
 
*'''Western women''':{{anchor|West}} ''"Western Women"'' are those females who have been touched by the evil corruption of [[feminism]] and don't always wish to be have [[#Sex|''sex'']] with males. ''Western Women'' primarily come from the [[#Anglo|''Anglosphere'']] and are contrasted with [[#Foreign|''foreign women'']].
 
*'''Western women''':{{anchor|West}} ''"Western Women"'' are those females who have been touched by the evil corruption of [[feminism]] and don't always wish to be have [[#Sex|''sex'']] with males. ''Western Women'' primarily come from the [[#Anglo|''Anglosphere'']] and are contrasted with [[#Foreign|''foreign women'']].

Revision as of 05:32, 14 February 2015

This is a guide to some of the more common buzzwords, terms of art, neologisms, and memes current among men's rights activists, pick-up artists, Men Going Their Own Way, and other such misogynist internet kooks from the plethora of phallocentric movements and websites occasionally collectively referred to as the manosphere.

  • Alpha: An "alpha" is a male who gets all the sex he wants, because his controlling and socially-dominant personality is so alluring to females.[1] Alphas are contrasted with betas and omegas and are similar to bad boys.
  • Alpha male of group: The "alpha male of group" is the most alpha-y person in the group. Often abbreviated AMOG.
  • Anglosphere: The "Anglosphere" is the sections of the world that have primarily English-speaking populations. The Anglosphere is filled with Western women.
  • Average frustrated chump: The term "average frustrated chump" refers to betas, incels, nice guys, and any male who "should" be getting sex but isn't, probably because of those evil feminists.
  • Bad boy: A "bad boy" is a male who is an asshole to females, being keyed into the revelation that they will reward him with sex for doing so.[1][2] Many manosphere sites support a false dichotomy between bad boys and nice guys. Whining women's perceived preference for bad boys is common among self-described betas, nice guys, loveshies and incels, who see this dynamic as the cause of their own sexual failures with females. Don't be surprised if bad boys also come with heavy doses of racism and misogyny.
  • Beta: A "beta" is a male who is somewhat inept in relationships with females and thus doesn't get "enough" sex, because he isn't controlling confident enough to be an alpha, because he isn't assholish enough to be a bad boy, or maybe because he doesn't buy into all this pick-up artist shit at all. (At least they aren't omegas.)
  • Blue pill: A "blue pill" is a person who hasn't woken up to the fact that society discriminates against males, not females; to "blue pill" is to do the same. The term is a reference to The Matrix, in which taking the blue pill means remaining part of the sheeple and believing nothing is wrong, while taking the red pill means waking up.
  • Carousel: The "carousel", also known as the cock carousel, is apparently the period between 18 and 30 in which a female has sex with as many alphas as possible, preferably in a hypergamous manner, after which they hit the wall, panic, and attempt to marry a beta.[3]
  • Creep shaming: "Creep shaming" occurs when a female rejects and/or comment on a male's unwanted sexual advances in a way that shames him, sometimes (though not necessarily) by calling him a creep. Making a big deal about creep shaming distracts people from whatever the male did and whether it was indeed creepy. Interestingly, many who attack direct forms of rejection such as creep shaming also attack indirect forms such as friendzoning, suggesting the problem is with rejection itself.
  • Equalism: "Equalism" and similar terms are trotted out by people who insist that they're not MRAs while rehashing the same old anti-feminist talking points as MRAs, such as claiming that feminists are not interested in true equality. (This usage of the term is not to be confused with its usage on Nickelodeon's animated TV series The Legend of Korra.[4])
  • Feminism: To the manosphere, there are two kinds of "feminism". There's good ol' historical feminism, which pushed for equality between males and females; because equality has totally been achieved, these kinds of feminists should just push off. And then there's feminazism, the current kind of feminism, in which females despicably strip males of their rights and refuse to have sex with males.
  • Foreign women: In the manosphere, "foreign women" are those women, untouched by feminism, who remain subservient to male demands pure and beautiful. Foreign women are highly sought after, and are contrasted with Western women.
  • Frame: "Frame" is the ability to control social interaction with a female, which the legendary alphas all apparently possess.[7]
  • Friendzone: A "friendzone" occurs when a male is friends with a female without them having sex, especially if the two were originally girlfriend and boyfriend. The idea of being friends with a female is apparently insufferable to many incels. Of course, friendzoning is usually a coded way for a female to tell a male that she doesn't want to date or have sex with him, whether or not she actually wants to be friends with him. Interestingly, many who attack indirect forms of rejection such as friendzoning also attack more direct forms such as creep shaming, suggesting that the problem is with rejection itself.
  • Game: "Game" or gaming is the (sleazy) art of seduction practised by pick-up artists. Game involves various conversational and psychological techniques to break down a woman's resistance (no, really) and make her receptive to having sex, whether she intends to or not.
  • Go fuck ten other women: "Go fuck ten other women" is common advice from pick-up artists to get over oneitis and rejection. Why? Because having sex with ten females reminds a male that all females are the same, and therefore no singular female is worthy of a male's attention.[9]
  • Herbivore men[wp]: The "herbivore men" are a recent phenomenon in Japan of males eschewing social expectations to pursue relationships, marriage, or a family, concentrating instead on a single life. Men Going Their Own Way are obsessed with the herbivore men, whom they insist are part of their own movement, regardless of the differing social and cultural factors at play in Japan — even going so far as to speculate about why feminism has such a notable impact in Japan.[10] In fact, the social pressures to marry in Japan (and many other cultures) are very un-feminist and apply to both genders, though males are somewhat better placed to defy these expectations.
  • Hicel: A "hicel" is a "high-standards involuntary celibate" person.[11] How the celibacy is involuntary when the person has "high standards", we may never know.
  • Hypergamy: "Hypergamy" is the perceived tendency of females to date, have sex with, and/or marry males of a higher socio-economic status than them. According to many in the manosphere, hypergamy is instinctual. It's worth noting that real sociologists use the term to classify relationships where the male member of the relationship is of higher status (pertaining to a relevant variable, like education or income). But even a cursory examination of studies using the term reveals how non-universal such marriages are.
  • Incel: An "incel" is a male who is involuntarily celibate, usually blaming it on society, females, feminists, bad boys, etc. While there are obviously many ordinary people who experience sexual frustration and rejection, self-identifying "incels" tend to exhibit a bizarre misogynistic worldview, claiming for example that it's "cruel" for women to have sex with some men while rejecting others, or to dress attractively while not being sexually available to every guy who's interested.
  • Kino escalation: "Kino escalation" is a game technique in which a male follows up on verbal seduction by touching a female, without seeking her permission, followed by increasing the amount and intimacy of the touching. (She won't notice it, honest!)
  • Last minute resistance: "Last minute resistance" is something that the chosen target of a pick-up artist says or does to indicate that no, she actually still doesn't want to have sex with him. Various game theories and techniques are devoted to overcoming this kind of last minute resistance and achieving something approximating consent so that the pick-up artist can carry on in the direction he's going.
  • Looks ladder: The "looks ladder" is the apparent ranking of people by their appearance.[12]
  • Looksism: "Looksism" is the belief that a person's physical appearance is the primary determinant of their attractiveness as a mate.[13] Looksism is opposed to personalitism.
  • Loveshy: A "Loveshy" is a male with a purported social or psychological condition that renders them unable to pursue relationships or sex due to social anxiety, awkwardness and shyness. The concept has been popularised by — and is most heavily associated with — Love-shy.com. Essentially, Loveshies are an even more self-pitying variation on incels with some added self-diagnosis and pseudopsychology.
  • Mangina: A "mangina" is a pro-feminist male, or one who is seen as collaborating with the perceived matriarchy. This can include any male who isn't stereotypically macho enough or doesn't share the MRA movement's hostility toward females.
  • Marcel: A "marcel" is somebody who is involuntarily celibate in marriage.[14] There are two implications here: first, that married people are somehow trapped in marriage together, even if it is sexless; and, second, that married persons should not be celibate, because their spouse should comply with their sexual wishes.
  • Men's rights movement: The "men's rights movement" is a movement that pushes for the rights of males in Western society, which is perceived as discriminatory against males. At the (mostly) benign end of the spectrum are groups and individuals that have some valid points to make (for example, on issues such as disparities in divorce outcomes and child custody, mental health stigmas, or enforced military service for men in some countries). However, these groups often play host to men with disturbing views about feminism and women in general. The more outspoken men's rights groups, including incel communities, MGTOW and "red pill" communities, are toxic dens of misogyny.
  • Men Going Their Own Way: Although it may sound like the title of a gay porn film, "Men Going Their Own Way" are actually a subset of MRAs who react to the feminazism and female supremacy they imagine to be going on in society by boycotting women altogether. So instead of having girlfriends or wives, they just congregate online to complain about how women are all such bitches and brag about how easily they could laid if they wanted to. Unlike incels, their celibacy is voluntary. Some do not even necessarily abstain from sex or dating but merely "refuse to surrender their will to the social expectations of women and society" in their interactions.
  • Misogyny: "Misogyny" is hatred of females, which nobody in the manosphere has. Nobody.
  • Nearcel: A "nearcel" is a person who is unable to satisfy their sexual urges often enough, making them one step above incels.[15] Poor souls.
  • Nice guy: A "nice guy" is somebody who is not mean to women, contrasting with bad boys. "I'm a nice guy — how come girls don't want to sleep with me?" is a familiar lament among frustrated and entitled incels and MRAs and the phrase nice guy is most often used as a pejorative for men who play this card. The problem here is that the guy usually isn't as "nice" as he thinks he is, and this delusion can mask anything from token shows of chivalry in the hope of sexual favours to more overtly stalkerish and passive-aggressive behaviour toward women. Even Isla Vista killer Elliot Rodger described himself as "the perfect guy" and "the supreme gentlemen" shortly before embarking on his violent rampage.[16]
  • Noncel: A "noncel" is somebody who is not celibate.
  • Not all women are like that: "Not all women are like that" is a common and reasonable response to manospheric claims that all women are evil man-hating bitches. MRAs who are used to this kind of response will just dismiss any criticism of this kind, citing it as example of the NAWALT argument, as if this refutes it. Ironically, "not all men are like that" or "not all MRAs are like that" have become common defences within the MRA community when faced with severe criticism, especially in the aftermath of the misogyny-inspired Isla Vista massacre of May 2014. This in turn prompted the "#YesAllWomen" social media hashtag used by women to share experiences of sexism and sexual victimisation.
  • Omega: An "omega" is a male who has no prospects whatsoever of getting laid. Omegas are below alphas, betas, and every other rung on the imaginary sexual hierarchy.
  • Oneitis: "Oneitis" occurs when a male falls in love with a singular female, but said female does not love said male. Because pick-up artists oppose romance/monogamy/marriage and support having as much sex as possible, the proscribed treatment for oneitis is to go fuck ten other women.
  • Orbiter: An "orbiter" is a male who has entered the friendzone but somehow continues to like his female friend.
  • Paleomasculinist: A "paleomasculinist" is a red pill adherent who views male domination and female submission as part of the natural order of things, and seeks to distance himself from the men's rights movement and PUAs/gamers.[17]
  • Personalitism: "Personalitism" is the belief that a person's personality is the primary determinant of their attractiveness as a mate.[18] Personalitism is opposed to looksism.
  • Pick-up artist: A "pick-up artist" is a male whose lifestyle is devoted to having sex with females, usually through various game strategies.
  • Seduction: "Seduction" is a term used by pick-up artists, presumably in an attempt to make their sleazy activities sound sophisticated and, well, seductive.
  • Sexual marketplace: The "sexual marketplace" is the market on which everyone flaunts their sexual goods. If it sounds weird, that's because it is.
  • Sexual market value: Somebody's "sexual market value" refers to their sexual desirability and is apparently the primary measure of an individual's worth.
  • Snowflake: A "snowflake" is a female who is different and better than all the other females. All females attempt to convince all males that they are the snowflake, when it's an obvious truth that all women are the same.
  • Social justice warrior: A "social justice warrior" is anyone who supports feminism, attacks racism, is generally not an asshole, etc. The term is often abbreviated as SJW. The term is always used pejoratively and attempts to end discussion through humiliation and otherization.
  • Target: A "target" is a woman whom a pick-up artist has set his sights on. We might call her instead a victim.
  • Thirsty: A person is "thirsty" if they highly desire sex.[20]
  • Volcel: A "volcel" is a person who is voluntarily celibate.[21]
  • The Wall: Females hit "The Wall" when they get really old, like 30 or so, suddenly become totally gross, have a precipitous drop in sexual market value, get flung off of the cock carousel, and have to marry a boring beta. This is a thing that totally happens. (As a "fun" side note, in Japan, a woman who has hit the Wall is known as a "Christmas cake", because supposedly no one wants it after the 25th.[22])
  • Western women: "Western Women" are those females who have been touched by the evil corruption of feminism and don't always wish to be have sex with males. Western Women primarily come from the Anglosphere and are contrasted with foreign women.
  • White Knight: A "white knight" is a male who defends a female in an argument. Using this term likens any male defending a female to a knight rescuing a damsel in distress, which apparently always degrades the female as being unable to defend herself. Furthermore, white knights apparently only defend females in the hope of getting sex from said females. White knights may also be accused of being blue pills, betas, manginas, etc. The term is always derogatory and is intended to end discussion through humiliation.
  • X/10: A measure of a person's physical attractiveness, with 10/10 meaning very attractive and 1/10 meaning very unattractive. They often use it as a noun, showing not only their willingness to think of a woman as a piece of meat, but also a terrible lack of creativity. Alternatively they may simply say the numerator only (e.g. "last night I banged a 7"). Often the manospher-er will assume both his rating of the woman and of himself to be objective truth.
  • Zeta: Not to be confused with the Mexican drug cartel of the same name, "Zetas" are synonymous with omegas.

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