Opinion | Gen Z slang terms are influenced by incels - The Washington Post - 0 views
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Incels (as they’re known) are infamous for sharing misogynistic attitudes and bitter hostility toward the romantically successful
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somehow, incels’ hateful rhetoric has bizarrely become popularized via Gen Z slang.
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it’s common to hear the suffix “pilled” as a funny way to say “convinced into a lifestyle.” Instead of “I now love eating burritos,” for instance, one might say, “I’m so burritopilled.” “Pilled” as a suffix comes from a scene in 1999’s “The Matrix” where Neo (Keanu Reeves) had to choose between the red pill and the blue pill, but the modern sense is formed through analogy with “blackpilled,” an online slang term meaning “accepting incel ideology.
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