Stacy
Declining🎒High School🔶Incel community originDefinition
The female equivalent of 'Chad' in incel terminology. An attractive, popular woman who (in the incel worldview) only dates 'Chads' and ignores 'regular' guys. Unlike Chad, this term hasn't been reclaimed as a positive meme and remains mostly negative.
Dad Mode: You Should Probably Talk to Them
Unlike 'Chad' which became a general meme, 'Stacy' is still mostly used in incel spaces and carries real resentment toward women. It reduces women to their appearance and frames them as shallow gatekeepers. If your kid is using this term, they're probably deeper into manosphere content than the 'Chad' memers. Worth a conversation about how they're thinking about women and relationships.
Came from: Incel forums (2010s) as the female archetype counterpart to 'Chad'
Examples
“She's such a Stacy she won't even look at average guys”
“She's attractive and popular and only dates the most popular/attractive guys”
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Grounds for emancipation
If your kid uses this as a meme about a stereotypically attractive person, whatever. If they use it with genuine resentment toward women, that's a different thing.
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Peak
2021-01
Last Verified
2026-02-25
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