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Incels
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Incel is a neologism used by some members of the manosphere to describe men who blame women, feminism, or society, for their inability to have sexual relationships with women. It is a shortened form of the more general term involuntary celibate, which describes individuals who are celibate, but not through personal choice.<ref name="georgia"/> The term is primarily used on websites such as 4chan (specifically its /r9k/ subforum), Reddit's , and LoveShy.com.<ref name="dewey2" /><ref name="cheadle" /><ref name="mcguire" /><ref name="salon" /> These online communities of incels have been called "one of the Internet’s most-reviled subcultures" by the Washington Post,<ref name="dewey1" /> and Salon.com writer Tracy Clark-Flory has criticized the concept of incel as being predicated on "the shared belief being that men are entitled to govern women’s bodies."<ref name="salon"/> Writing in Newsweek, Barbara Herman has described incels as men who "resent women for being too picky to sleep with them,"<ref name=Newsweek/> while Rebecca Cohen has described those who identify as incel as men who feel that women "owe" them sex.<ref name=Cohen/> A survey of 60 men and 22 women who were users of an online discussion group for involuntary celibates by Georgia State University Denise Donnelly and Elizabeth Burgess concluded that they were a diverse group whose reasons for not having sex vary from autism or other social-psychological issues, to overwork, to physical disabilities, or to having being raised in hyper-religious households. The survey included responses from heterosexuals, bisexuals, homosexuals and transsexuals.<ref name="dewey1" /><ref name=Donnelly1/> Online communities of "incels" have been implicated in incidents of spree killings by male individuals, including the 2014 Isla Vista killings and the Umpqua shooting.<ref name="dewey2" /><ref name="dewey1" /> Some self-identified incels use the term uprising to refer to a hypothetical future revolution in which incels take revenge on both women and non-incel men.<ref name="dewey1" /> 
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