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Chadfishing
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English
Etymology
From en Chadfish ing.
Noun
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en incel slang The act of creating a fake online profile to en catfish slangverb someone (typically a woman) by pretending to be an attractive man.
2020, Henry S. Price, "Antifeminism in Neoliberalism: The Case of Incel", thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham, page 251:
Chadfishing encapsulates the Incel worldview’s diagnosis of a hypocritical social environment which claims to believe in feminist, egalitarian principles but which in fact facilitates degenerate, looks-obsessed behaviour.
2021, anonymous, quoted in Eirik Sande, "Verdiløse menn-en: kvalitativ studie av kjønn, erotisk kapital og fellesskap blant incels på internett", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page iv:
so i spent all night talking to this goody two shoes foid last night on my chadfishing account and heres what she admitted
en 2022-12 anonymous Michael Halpin Weaponized Subordination: How Incels Discredit Themselves to Degrade Women Gender & Society https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08912432221128545 36 6 824 In a thread receiving more than 100 replies, User 8 shares screenshots from conversations with numerous women he is Chadfishing: When Chadfishing these girls are like slaves.
en 2023 Robert Lawson Language and Mediated Masculinities: Cultures, Contexts, Constraints https://www.google.com/books/edition/Language_and_Mediated_Masculinities/5VKjEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22chadfishing+or+the+chad%22&pg=PA133&printsec=frontcover 133 The aim of 'Chadfishing' is to show that regardless of how terrible a man is, women will still be prepared to sleep with him because of how good-looking he is (see also Klee 2019).
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en Incel community