Do gymcels exhibit another form of orthorexia?
If you’re online at all, by this point you’ve probably heard of “incels” and the infamous “red pill community” , many of the members of which fall under the umbrella of the online “manosphere”. “Incel” is a portmanteau for ‘involuntarily celibate’, a term used to describe a person (usually male-identifying) who views their own lack of sexual activity as a source of resentment for those (usually women) who are having sex with other people, or in any case, not having sex with them. A reference to the 90s blockbuster film The Matrix - ironically created by two trans women - this state of realised resentment is what constitutes the “red pill” existence, one in which supposedly, men remain in a “reality” in which “women run the world without taking responsibility for it”. By contrast, the “blue pill” represents a world in which women’s greater oppression and absence of equal opportunities comparatively with men is acknowledged. This is what the incel community would call The Matrix, and