Feeling depressed due to being single at 30

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The term "incel" is an irritating term, because it has 3 different definitions, and the user of the term can infer one definition while others interpret it as one of the alternate definitions. I think it would be useful if we had a different term to encapsulate people who have a very severe sex/long-term dating drought that brings with it no connotations about ideologies or anything like that.

I think the only reason that non-ideological lonely men use the term incel to describe themselves is because it quickly conveys what their problems are regarding love and dating. Like I said, there's no common non-ideological term that encapsulates the complete lack of dating and sexual experience in the same way that "incel" does, so it's easier to use one word that most people will understand than to spend a couple of sentences detailing the problem.

The word incel looks very similar to the word incest. Another word created to insult people like loser, ret*d, idiot, stupid, etc. Overusing any word makes it meaningless and ineffective.

another reminder how it also enrages me when people call it a skillset, it's a long story

I have increased my self-esteem a lot since September. I remember when I was 25, I was so depressed that when someone made fun of me or I dwelled long about being a virgin, I would come very close to physically vomiting. Sometimes I would come close to actually retching, so much it affected me mentally.

But I still have a lot of work to do to block out all of the comments that I have received over the years. They keep replaying over and over, all of those "virgin loser" comments. The missing out part is depressing too, which is an issue separate from the negative comments.

I am, shall we say, of mature years (over 45 and that's all you're getting) and am asexual. Consequently, I am still a virgin. I have never had a relationship and do not want one. Doesn't bother me at all.

it's even noticeable on reddit and quora, and every other forum as well

Quora is a toxic site and I deleted from there years ago.

It would be hard coping with reddit, 4chan, quota and reliving high school trauma and all the immature BS from the low intelligent people. It was the geeks/nerds that often made something of their lives and ignore the immature BS of high school and college and had more time to focus on studies get high grades and get high paying jobs. Most of the jocks became losers: drug addicts, alcoholics, heavily in debt, criminal records and more than likely fat/obese. They peaked early and have nothing to show for it.

it's just another reminder that the vast majority of people in the world who reach 30+ years of age without ever having been in a relationship before, are male.

Understand the feeling but 30 still young. Your time will come. Better late than never. Many people are in the same boat. Me included

it also reminds me, some dating coaches out there, think we are in a dating/relationship apocalypse, as in, she states there are more single adults today than ever before, marriage is on the decline, the birth rate being at the lowest point in U.S. history.