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Roastie
A dehumanising incel slur for women, built on a crude and false anatomical stereotype used to shame women assumed to be sexually active.
Definition
"Roastie" is a dehumanising incel slur for women, built on a crude anatomical stereotype used to shame women assumed to be sexually active. Wikipedia lists it among the "dehumanizing and vulgar terms for women" used in incel communities, noting it as "a reference to the labia minora". [1] The underlying "theory" — that a woman's body visibly records her sexual history — is biologically false; this page does not dignify it with detail.
Why it matters
The slur does two things at once: it denies women's humanity (like femoid) and adds a layer of sexual policing, punishing women for imagined promiscuity. It belongs to the same incel and blackpill vocabulary of contempt, and its casual use is a warning sign, not a joke — a person who reaches for it has absorbed the idea that a woman's worth is set by her sexual history and written on her body.
Sources
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- [1]Incel · Wikipedia archived ↗
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