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Black Manosphere
The Black manosphere is the branch of the anti-feminist manosphere populated by Black men defending Black male authority; known for Fresh and Fit creators, patriarchal gender scripts, and Pick-Me women creators.
Bronze Age Pervert
Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) is a pseudonymous far-right online influencer and author of the 2018 self-published book Bronze Age Mindset, widely identified with Yale Ph.D. Costin Alamariu and associated with the manosphere and dissident right.
Feminazi
Feminazi, a blend of feminist and Nazi, is an offensive slur for feminists popularized by Rush Limbaugh in the early 1990s, originally aimed at pro-choice advocates, now common in online antifeminist hate speech.
Incel
Incel (involuntary celibate) is an online subculture of men who define themselves by perceived inability to form romantic relationships; coined by a woman in the 1990s, now part of the manosphere, marked by blackpill ideology, rare but high-profile violence, and widespread mental health struggles.
Karen (slang)
Karen is pejorative slang for an entitled, demanding middle-aged white woman, stereotyped with a blond bob and demanding to speak to the manager; attested by 2005, it exploded in 2018-2020 via Black Twitter and viral videos like Central Park Karen.
Manosphere
The manosphere is a decentralized network of anti-feminist, male-supremacist online communities, including MRAs, Pick-Up Artists, The Red Pill, MGTOW, and incels; term coined 2009, roots in 1970s men's rights movement, increasingly linked to radicalization and mainstream influencers like Andrew Tate.
Sealioning
Sealioning is a trolling and harassment tactic of relentless, superficially polite demands for evidence, coined from David Malki's 2014 Wondermark comic "The Terrible Sea Lion" and named during GamerGate; it exhausts targets and undermines their authority.
Social justice warrior
Social justice warrior (SJW) is a pejorative for promoters of progressive views; positive in the early 1990s, pejorative from about 2009–2011, mainstreamed by 2014 GamerGate, later displaced by "woke".