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The Brave summmarizer says:

> Wordcels are people who have high verbal intelligence and are good with words, but feel inadequately compensated for their skill. The term "cel" denotes frustration over being denied something they feel they deserve.1 Shape rotators are people with high visuospatial intelligence but low verbal intelligence, who have an intuition for technical problem-solving but are unable to account for themselves or apprehend historical context.2 The use of the terms has skyrocketed online in the past few months, especially in the last few days.0 The term "wordcel" is derived from incel and is used to describe someone who has high verbal intelligence but low "visuospatial" intelligence, whose facility for and love of complex abstraction leads them into rhetorical and political dead-ends.




Wow, okay, thank you for explaining that. They both sound kind of derogative (I'd guessed as much from -cel) but at least I understand them now.


It seems they are intended to. As the article linked above says, it's part of the culture wars.




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