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ricecel en · NOUN

Etymology

From rice + -cel, referencing the fact that rice is a staple food in East Asia.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, qualifier:incel slang, slur) An incel of East Asian (especially Chinese) heritage.
   • Bitter pill to swallow for ricecels: we are inferior to white men in every possible way. 2022 June 14, Ksenija Bogetic, anonymous quotee, “Race and the language of incels: Figurative neologisms in an emerging English cryptolect”, in English Today, volume 39, number 2:
   • Picture a dead average ricecel working in computer related field. Me so horny, me so sad, me so over 2022, Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo, anonymous quotee, “An analysis of self-other representations in the incelosphere: Between online misogyny and self-contempt”, in Discourse & Society, volume 34, number 1:
   • As with some other incel terms, this manages to come remarkably close to a structural critique of racism and white supremacy, but the underlying reasoning that ricecels use is almost always grounded in the evolutionary psychology of women, rather than socially constructed structures of oppression. 2020, Whiteaker A. James, “The Story of the 'Incel Saint': A Rhetorical Analysis of Elliot Rodger's My Twisted World”, in Shayna Engdahl, editor, Source 2020: Conference Proceedings, page 150:

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