There will be a rise in incel related terror attacks

There's a lot of white knights in this thread. Ready to defend the ladies and pour scorn on the Incels.

Pretty much par for the course. There is something to this Incel lark. I am happily married although could have been described as Incel up until a few years ago as I spent many years single. What I found was that, say for our parents generation, there was generally one man for one woman and people tended to couple up and start families quite young. By contrast with online dating, I find that 90% of the women compete over the top 10% of guys, who in turn can play the field as they are inundated with options. This leaves the women and the remaining 90% of men unhappy and living off scraps. It's just very unhealthy and the only real winners are the top echelon of guys who don't want to settle down.

There's your mistake (and a mistake for a lot of other people).. you're judging dating by online dating.

Online dating is generally superficial, far too focused on sex and cheating, and is full of people lying about themselves. The genuine people are caught by the nature of the internet, whereby people have unrealistic expectations due to the emphasis on physical beauty, and variable success with marketing oneself. People are too used to presenting a side of themselves online which doesn't exist outside of it, and therefore, people are going to be disappointed when actual meetings happen.. and even then, the superficial nature of online dating (with it's strong emphasis on sex) means that few encounters have any real meaning.

People really should get off the internet, and meet people in the real world.

But "incel" is used as a label for the misogynistic crowd. I don't think it's correct either but it has become a negative term for a negative person.

No, I've been lonely, I've never been an incel. Being an incel is self-declared, and indicates that you ascribe certain viewpoints to the fact that you're lonely. In particular, the idea that your loneliness is a wrongdoing on society's part, being forced upon you. Have you tried googling it?

The first page of results includes: "Incel: A new terror threat?" "Why incels hate women" "Incel: a person (usually a man) who regards himself or herself as being involuntarily celibate and typically expresses extreme resentment and hostility toward those who are sexually active"

The very first hit is Wikipedia:

An incel is a member of an online subculture of people who define themselves as unable to get a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one. Discussions in incel forums are often characterized by resentment and hatred, misogyny, misanthropy, self-pity and self-loathing, racism, a sense of entitlement to sex, and the endorsement of violence against women and sexually active people. The American nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described the subculture as "part of the online male supremacist ecosystem" that is included in their list of hate groups.

There are definitely those who just want to wallow and do nothing about it, but I don't think it's that easy for some guys to get laid, due to psychological barriers. And not all people want to drop their standards and just carry out the physical act and leave it at that.

Plus there are guys for whom being lonely is not a dry spell, it's just life.

I don't need to. It's bs. Involuntary celibate. Good lord. People who say these things are turning into Americans far too hooked into the social sciences.

Incels are an informal movement. A club for frustrated and bitter men. A group. A phrase that allowed the claiming of identity, and connecting with others with the same identity.

It's about a starting point.

If you're struggling with an issue you ease yourself in. Someone that picks up tennis in the morning isn't going to be winning the next Grand Slam. Social skills and gaining confidence are not going to arrive with the sun in the morning.

I was painfully shy around girls when I was younger. I then started secondary school, which was mixed, and within a few months of sitting beside girls in class, hanging around at lunch, etc... that shyness went away. I went from not having the ability to talk to a girl to "will you meet me?"

A lot of INCELs (and I ain't fond of that word) do be like "I'd treat her better than her boyfriend."

Well, how does anyone know that, because you're sat in your room and you've typed it on the internet?

Or if they see one of their famous internet personalities with an average looking boyfriend it's "He must be rich, have a great job and a 14 inch mickey."

These fellas need to get off the internet, get outside and interact with women.

The etymology of the word incel stems from the two words, involuntarily celibate. Unlike say religious people, who choose or vow to be celibate, there are some people who do not choose to be celibate. This may be because physically they are unable to function sexually, as a result of injury or illness or any reason which inhibits their ability to have sex. These people may be entirely happy with who they are, they may even be married and have perfectly healthy relationships in every other way.

Then there's a cohort of individuals who believe that involuntary celibacy applies to them because they are not sexually active. That's not to say that they can't "get the ride" but that they have "limited options" and that through no fault of their own, have no choice but to be celibate.

Of course there are women who are involuntarily celibate just by virtue of the definition but they don't form part of the incel sub culture. This is primarily because it is specifically a male domain which tends to attribute blame for the lack of sexual activity solely at the feet of women. (and by extension society)

Also, it may be that women probably don't get so bogged down by lack of sexual intimacy to form a cult based on it and that might be because they are more socially adaptive in nature. They tend to place greater value on intimate personal relationship than intimate sexual ones. And chocolate cake.

Well that's a leap. Your definition of feeling lonely is 'desired sex but couldn't have it'?

There are bigger differences in our understanding of the English language than I thought.

I can offer an opinion and give a bit of advice but there's not much I can do about your reading comprehension.