Matters aren’t helped by the company Young keeps. Yet all the overlapping cultures that clam him - gay culture, “hook-up” culture, social-media culture, Korean culture - seem to have allied themselves against the fulfillment of that desire. With opportunities for casual sex perpetually close at hand, thanks not least to smartphone dating apps, Young longs for nothing more than a deep and lasting connection. In nearly all cases the incel is a heterosexual male, though some have speculated on the nature of his homosexual equivalent: a tweet I saw a few months ago, for example, posited that “the gay version of ‘incel’ is not finding a long-term relationship.” If so, then the protagonist of Sang Young Park’s novel Love in the Big City is a kind of incel. In recent years the internet has launched into the zeitgeist the term “incel,” referring to individuals filled with resentment about their state of involuntary celibacy - i.e., sexlessness. Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Women.
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