Pentagon Adopts Incel-Speak

[4cant]

FT: [Workers are 'friction-maxxing' to resist AI](https://www.ft.com/content/fd5e65df-83c7-42f3-9658-377c99df4...)

Economist: [Should You Be Fibremaxxing?](https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/02/20/...)

Bloomberg: [Fibermaxxing Is a Diet Trend Even Nutritionists Can Love](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-11/high-fibe...)

The Incels have took over all media last month!

[dwroberts]

They are using this style of speech, because it serves their aims of recruiting young people to go fight and die in stupid conflicts like this

[YZF]

TIL: “involuntarily celibate”

I've heard the word incel used all over but didn't know where it came from. I did have some idea of what it meant ofcourse.

People are so divided into these echo chambers they make up their own languages. Soon the different groups won't even be able to communicate with each other.

[jl6]

Self-sorting into echo chambers has definitely already happened and discourse is definitely already hampered by lack of consensus on what words mean.

[actionfromafar]

I think that's the case already. Did you know Trump is the imperfect vessel of God?

That means everything, no matter what happens, is fine. Because if Trump is found to be ever-more imperfect, it's OK. Because vessel of God part.

[jl6]

> “You’re hitting yourself in the face with a hammer. That feels very manly. It’s very strong,” Walker says.

Is this an actual thing that kids do or just a moral panic because some loon did it once for clicks?

[rasur]

It's annoying that they class themselves as "Involuntary" Celibates, because as far as I can tell the "in" part of "Involuntary" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Volcels is way more accurate.

[jfengel]

Yes, that.

They are convinced that women are terrible people who deny them sex for no reason. Not surprisingly, women don't want to have sex with men who hate them.

Breaking out of that loop is nigh-on impossible. It's hard to mask that belief, so even if they try, women get a bad feeling about them. They don't feel safe, and women are extremely vulnerable during sex; women don't have sex when there's any chance you might hurt them.

Once they've hooked up with other incels, they spend their time goading each other into higher levels of hatred for women, making it even harder for them to find a woman who will demonstrate what actual human women are like.

It is both simple and incredibly difficult to just accept that women are people. If you can do that -- or even fake it -- you can find out how to actually enjoy women as people, and not just the guardians of sex.

[assbuttbuttass]

The incels have grown up and now work at the Pentagon

[shmeeed]

They've become old enough to work at the Pentagon. Grown up they have not.

[jmclnx]

and in ICE

[simianwords]

I believe incels and looksmaxxing are different with some overlap so I don't know why guardian is conflating the two of them.

But I think there's a lot of truth in what these two communities say. The reason their slang catches on is because they attach to words what people subconsciously believe anyway.

[postflopclarity]

"what people subconciously believe" != "lot of truth"

the State should not be boosting the rhetoric of what mostly amounts to a bunch of hateful losers blaming their problems on women.