Femoid

2017slang termsemi-active

Femoid is a derogatory incel slang term for women, built from combining 'female' and 'android' to imply women behave like programmed robots. It first surfaced on Reddit's /r/Incels subreddit in April 2017 and spread across 4chan boards, drawing mainstream press attention by late 2017.

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Overview

Femoid, often shortened to 'foid,' is a derogatory slang word used inside incel communities to describe women as robotic beings driven only by base reproductive impulses toward Chads1. The word is a portmanteau of 'female' and 'android,' and the framing suggests women lack real personalities or independent thought2.

The term picked up heavy use on incel subreddits, related 4chan boards, and standalone manosphere forums3. Outside those spaces it drew immediate pushback, with anti-incel communities like /r/IncelTears mocking the vocabulary and feminist commentators criticizing its dehumanizing intent4.

How It Spread

The word jumped to 4chan within a week. On April 8th, 2017, an anonymous poster on /pol/ used it repeatedly in a thread titled 'Sub chad looks = nightmare mode,' framing 'femoids' as women who ignore lower-status men while chasing Chads3. Other imageboards including /sp/ and /tv/ picked it up soon after, and by April 11th confused outsiders were asking /r/OutOfTheLoop what a 'femoid' or 'femoloid' even was3.

Mainstream press caught up that fall. On November 1st, 2017, U.K. paper The Times ran a piece by Neil Johnston headlined 'Alt-right has a word for its own ideology: wrongthink,' which glossed femoid as a 'term to describe women as androids or sub-human'1. A /pol/ anon quickly reposted a photo of the headline with the caption 'The normies are onto us'3.

By 2018, the word was widespread enough to become its own punchline. A November 8th, 2018 /pol/ thread openly mocked incel vocabulary including femoid3. Urban Dictionary added an entry for the term on November 22nd, 2019, submitted by user Avengerq, which picked up over 970 likes in the following three years5.

How to Use This Meme

Femoid is typically used as a noun replacement for 'woman' or 'women' in incel-adjacent writing, often shortened to 'foid.' Common convention pairs it with words like 'Chad,' 'Stacy,' or 'roastie' inside the wider incel glossary, and it often appears in rants about dating market dynamics rather than as a standalone joke.

Frequently Asked Questions

Femoid

2017slang termsemi-active

Femoid is a derogatory incel slang term for women, built from combining 'female' and 'android' to imply women behave like programmed robots. It first surfaced on Reddit's /r/Incels subreddit in April 2017 and spread across 4chan boards, drawing mainstream press attention by late 2017.

manosphere memes slang memes gender discourse memes subreddit origin memes portmanteau memes

Overview

Femoid, often shortened to 'foid,' is a derogatory slang word used inside incel communities to describe women as robotic beings driven only by base reproductive impulses toward Chads1. The word is a portmanteau of 'female' and 'android,' and the framing suggests women lack real personalities or independent thought2.

The term picked up heavy use on incel subreddits, related 4chan boards, and standalone manosphere forums3. Outside those spaces it drew immediate pushback, with anti-incel communities like /r/IncelTears mocking the vocabulary and feminist commentators criticizing its dehumanizing intent4.

How It Spread

The word jumped to 4chan within a week. On April 8th, 2017, an anonymous poster on /pol/ used it repeatedly in a thread titled 'Sub chad looks = nightmare mode,' framing 'femoids' as women who ignore lower-status men while chasing Chads3. Other imageboards including /sp/ and /tv/ picked it up soon after, and by April 11th confused outsiders were asking /r/OutOfTheLoop what a 'femoid' or 'femoloid' even was3.

Mainstream press caught up that fall. On November 1st, 2017, U.K. paper The Times ran a piece by Neil Johnston headlined 'Alt-right has a word for its own ideology: wrongthink,' which glossed femoid as a 'term to describe women as androids or sub-human'1. A /pol/ anon quickly reposted a photo of the headline with the caption 'The normies are onto us'3.

By 2018, the word was widespread enough to become its own punchline. A November 8th, 2018 /pol/ thread openly mocked incel vocabulary including femoid3. Urban Dictionary added an entry for the term on November 22nd, 2019, submitted by user Avengerq, which picked up over 970 likes in the following three years5.

How to Use This Meme

Femoid is typically used as a noun replacement for 'woman' or 'women' in incel-adjacent writing, often shortened to 'foid.' Common convention pairs it with words like 'Chad,' 'Stacy,' or 'roastie' inside the wider incel glossary, and it often appears in rants about dating market dynamics rather than as a standalone joke.

Frequently Asked Questions