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Virgin and Chad
Virgin
The Virgin Walk
The first character to be added to the meme, Virgin represents the normal, boring way something is usually done.- Adaptational Badass: In the "Virgin Chad vs. the Chad Virgin".
- Boring, but Practical: In classic style memes, Virgin represents something boring and normal, but functional.
- Butt-Monkey: He always gets made fun of in every meme.
- Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Forms this with Chad if shown as his friend.
- Even Nerds Have Standards: He's a notch (or several notches) above the other virgin characters, and is more functional than Lad.
- The Everyman: He's meant to represent the average viewer of the meme.
- Extreme Doormat: He's usually shown as being shy and averse to conflict, and is too polite, giving too much space to oncoming traffic.
- Nerds Are Virgins: Is modeled after this stereotype.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The Nice to Chad's Mean and to Thad's In-Between.
- Nice Guy: The nicest one out.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Chad's confident and loud Red Oni.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The sensitive loser to Chad's manly man.
- Teeny Weenie: He's mentioned to have a significantly below-average penis size.
- This Loser Is You: The memes usually make fun of him for doing things in the way a normal person would.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: In "Virgin Chad VS Chad Virgin" memes.
Chad
THE CHAD STRIDE
"OUCH!"
The polar opposite of Virgin, Chad represents the crazy, unrealistic way of doing something.- Achievements in Ignorance: More negative portrayals of Chad highlight just how little he thinks about what he does.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In the "Virgin Bad Thing vs. Chad Good Thing" memes, as well as most of the comics.
- Awesome, but Impractical: In classic-style memes, he's this. The things he does are a lot flashier and more impressive than the Virgin's actions, but also tend to be far more impractical.
- Beyond the Impossible: He's never heard a song in his entire life, he can look everyone in the eye at all times, and his hair is fastened so it doesn't react to the laws of physics.
- Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Forms this with Virgin if shown as his friend.
- Depending on the Writer: Classic style memes portray him as a bully and an open sociopath. Later, Brad took on these more negative traits, leaving Chad - while still absurd and insensitive to the feelings of others - kinder.
- Flanderization: Reverse. While he still remains as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Chad was more of a typical bully.
- Gag Haircut: A single spike of blond hair, fastened so that nothing can move it. Not even the laws of physics.
- Gag Penis: Very visible already, and it just keeps getting more exaggerated with every further character past him.
- Good Is Not Nice: Pre-Took a Level in Kindness. He is one of the good guys but not one of the most nicest people.
- Humanoid Abomination: Often the actions Chad takes are so exaggerated as to be impossible for a regular human being.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Outside of classic style memes. While Chad may not be the nicest person, he has a heart, unlike Brad.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Chad, along with Thad, is the In-Between to Virgin's Nice and Brad's Mean.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Virgin's insecure and quiet Blue Oni.
- Refuge in Audacity: His personality in a nutshell.
- Silly Walk: Tiny, beetle-like strides.
- Sociopathic Hero: The original meme mentions that he doesn't register the emotions of others at all, and this trait shows up in some other memes as well.
- Success Through Insanity: He tends to be depicted as wildly successful in life despite (or thanks to) his complete disregard for normal behavior.
- Super-Strength: He's able to slap oncoming traffic out of his way to make room for his walk.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Usually portrayed as the main character in the VvC Reddit posts.
- Visual Pun: Chad's head deliberately resembles the borders of the African country of Chad, which is especially evident in his unorthodox triangular hairstyle resembling the northern border of Chad.
Chad Tier Characters
Thad
Thad
Superior to even Chad, the elusive Thad is a cool, mysterious character.- The Ace: Even more so than Chad.
- Always Someone Better: Is the "someone" to Chad.
- Bully Hunter: He physically assaults bullies for sport.
- Cruel to Be Kind: Played for Laughs. Anytime he does anything even remotely negative it's this.
- Even the Guys Want Him: Looking at him for long periods of time can turn men gay or even induce gender dysphoria in them.
- Gag Haircut: A mohawk even bigger and more unrealistic than Chad's.
- Gag Penis: One so big, he has to keep it concealed by curling it up like a millipede.
- Good Is Not Soft: He's friends with Virgins and Chads alike, but will crush Brad with his bare hands if he bullies them.
- Heroic Build: Thad is near the peak of human physical perfection.
- Lovable Jock: Thad is absurdly jacked, almost to a superhuman degree, but he's kind to everyone—even Virgins.
- Nice Guy: While Chad's status as this is Depending on the Writer, Thad is almost always portrayed as a sweet dude who protects Virgins.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The In-Between to Virgin's Nice and Chad's Mean
- Sealed Good in a Can: During the Gizzardverse arc.
- Super-Strength: His muscles are so toned that there's actually no space between the atoms.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: He's (almost) always drawn without a shirt on.
Lad
A disturbingly overdone Chad, Lad has turned so Chadly, he's worse than even the Virgin.
- Ambiguously Brown: Although it's probably a tan.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Due to his massive penis, he's still a virgin and still can't get laid.
- A Wizard Did It: The original concept for the chararcter was that Lad was a Virgin who was granted a wish from a genie to become "the Chaddiest Chad who ever Chadded" but only in the physical characteristics; which where promptly taken to the logical extreme.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: He was created when a Virgin wished to become the greatest Chad in existence.
- Beware the Silly Ones: When he isn't failing spectacularly he's this. Anything he actually succeeds in doing has horrifying consequences or defies all reason.
- Big Prick, Big Problems: The problem with having a bulge half his body size is that he cannot move well with it, sometimes even being portrayed as having to cart it around in a wheelbarrow. Having sex is also out of the question, given that not only can he physically not, it is considered highly repulsive by everyone else.
- Body Horror: His penis is so massive that he needs a wheelbarrow to carry it around, his muscles are overinflated, and his chin is disturbingly long and penile (or even resemble a pair of buttocks).
- Butt-Monkey: Everybody bullies him, even the Virgin.
- Dumb Muscle: Of course. While he has a ridiculously muscular body, Lad (mostly) isn't the brightest individual among the VvC characters.
- Even the Guys Want Him: Inverted. Not only do women want nothing to do with him, but looking at him turns gay men straight.
- Gag Haircut: A mohawk so long, it extends several inches past his face. It still overreacts to the wind.
- Gag Penis: His penis is about half the size of his body.
- Improbable Weapon User: Depending on the meme, Lad can literally use his bulge as a weapon while crushing his victims to death with it.
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds/Obliviously Evil: He's so out of touch with reality he may not know the extent of the destruction he causes.
- Phrase Catcher: "What the fuck, Lad?"
- The Sociopath: When he's not depicted as a pathetic loser or Obliviously Evil, he's usually this.
- Too Dumb to Live: Oftentimes depicted as this.
- Took a Level in Badass: Originally he was bullied by everybody and his muscles were so dense he couldn't even move. Now, he's able to carry out crimes against humanity and/or self-mutilation in every meme.
- Happens in the Gizzardverse arc, where Gad's drug binge causes him to channel his power into Lad, giving him the ability to fly and making him indestructible.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Memes featuring him will (usually) call him out on his foul or pathetic behaviour.
Lad what the fuck!
You've gone too far this time Lad!
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He's suffering humiliation over having an oversized bulge, but destroys society.
Bruce
Bruce
An Australian and the definition of manliness.- Ambiguously Brown
- Awesome Aussie
- Big Damn Heroes: He goes into space to snap Gad out of his Heroic BSoD.
- Expy: Of Chad, albeit with Australian flavor.
- Due to his nature, it's not that hard to remind him of Saxton Hale and "Crocodile" Dundee.
- Gag Penis: Apparently has a portal to another realm in his pants because his dick is so big.
- Testosterone Poisoning
- Wearing a Flag on Your Head: He wears the flag of Australia as a cape.
Bad
An overlord on a throne who speaks telepathically.
- Atlas Pose: Bad has enslaved a Chad to hold up the weight of his immense bulge like Atlas.
- Orcus on His Throne: Due to his stick figure legs and overly muscular torso, he's confined to a throne as a result.
- Token Evil Teammate: Most "Chad Tier" characters are seen as good/positive, while Lad may be portrayed as Obliviously Evil. Bad is the only one with the actual aesthetic of a creepy villain and more consistently and self-awarely evil than Lad. (Unless you take the Futuristic Occultist's more Chadlike form into account)
- Top-Heavy Guy: Exaggerated. The reason why he's an Orcus on His Throne is because of his figure, stick figure legs and overly muscular torso.
Dad
A mysterious cosmic being, with many different functions and appearances.
- Body Horror: A rather extreme example. The original design had planet Earth as Dad's bulge and his chin is so long that it pierced through Mars, Jupiter and Saturn like there's no tomorrow! The first redesign resembles Lad but even more ridiculously grotesque and his offspring (who appear to be Virgin, Chad and Thad respectively) grow out of his chin. Also, his penis is literally the size of a large car and causes Dad to suffer excruciating pain every time it's dragged around the ground.
- Eldritch Abomination: Duh.
- Gag Haircut: Even more ridiculous than Lad's.
- Genius Loci: His planet form is where all mortal life on the Chadiverse exists.
Gad
Gad
The God of the Chadiverse, Gad represents the most absurd and exaggerated way of doing something.- Ambiguously Bi: He kissed Gizzard, but has an ongoing relationship with Gacy.
- Big Good: He has to be, as the God of the Chadiverse.
- Dark and Troubled Past: If he used to be a Lad.
- Functional Addict: He (sometimes) has a love for methamphetamines, but it doesn't stop him from serving as the God of the Chadiverse.
- The "functional" part goes out the window during the Gizzardverse arc, when Cad sells him an "Every Drug Mixture".
- Gag Haircut: His hairstyle is based off of the Golden Ratio, and is therefore perfect by definition.
- King of All Cosmos: One of the more bizarre portrayals of a divine figure out there, for sure.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: His 8 sperm cells transformed into Chad arms due to their fertility.
- Multiple-Choice Past: Some claim he was once a Lad who went through some sort of dark ritual to become a god, but others say he existed before the beginning of the Chadiverse. Both might be possible through the use of a Stable Time Loop.
- Physical God
Shlad
"Zoo wee mama this is epic. now my parents will finally love me"
A mix of Chad and a Tonka truck. He bangs lots of Stacies.- Body Horror: Aside from the Stylistic Suck, he looks hideously deformed albeit in a goofy manner.
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Cargo Ship: He fucks Tonka trucks, and is the result of a Chad fucking a Tonka truck. - Catchphrase: "Tonka Tonka!"
- Gag Penis: One even longer and more grotesque than Lad's, but it doesn't really seem to bother him.
- Really Gets Around: Mentioned as such in his original post.he fucks all the stacies or something but he's not chad? haha
- Stylistic Suck: All characters are this to an extent, but Shlad takes the cake. Emphasis on the "stylish".
Characters Between Virgin and Chad
Versus/Vs.
The Versus/V.S.
You know how the meme is "Virgin VS. Chad"? It turns out that Versus is his own character.- The Bus Came Back: See Put on a Bus below; he eventually returns.
- Forgettable Character: Was apparently a friend of Virgin and Chad, but got forgotten by most people.
- Generic Guy: Like Virgin, but not as pathetic, and Basic, but not treated as boring in-universe.
- Put on a Bus: Went to take a shit prior to the meme; because he was gone for a while, people thought Virgin and Chad were fighting rather than hanging out with a third friend.
- Literal-Minded: His debut meme is made from the point of view that, since the word "VS." Is in the title, it has to be the name of a character.
- Minor Major Character: An inversion, where he's a Major Minor Character. His name is in the title of the meme, but only shows up sometimes due to being in the bathroom from about 2017-2021.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Maybe "doom" is an exaggeration, but (in his Canon at least) people believed the Virgn and Chad were fighting when in reality, they were "Virgin, Versus, and Chad". Versus caused a perceived conflict when he went to take an impossibly long shit. When he came back, a whole world had built around comparing his two friends.
Basic
Basic
A regular guy, for memes where that doesn't apply to the Virgin.- Anti-Humor: The complete lack of any sort of joke is the joke.
- Boring, but Practical: In the same way as the Virgin. But taken up a notch.
- The Everyman: He's specifically designed to be as average and boring as possible. Again, taken up a notch.
- Nature Adores a Virgin: Ironic, but one of the ways one becomes a Basic instead of a Virgin is to simply decide to hold off on sex until you are married.
- Ridiculously Average Guy: Nothing about him really stands out.
Brad
Brad
A poseur that tries to be like Chad superficially, but fails, and just ends up looking like a massive Jerkass.- The Bully: He bullies Virgins and Basics out of insecurity.
- Butt-Monkey: He takes a lot of abuse in memes due to his Jerkass personality.
- The Chew Toy: Considering how much of a Jerkass he is, it's hard to feel sorry for him.
- Friendless Background: He's mentioned to have no real friends.
- Gag Haircut: One which superficially resembles Chad's, but just ends up looking dumb.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex
- Jerkass: He lacks Chad's charisma and his attempts to replicate Chad's self-confident swagger come off as cruel and petty.
- Jerk Jock: He's modeled after the traditional image of one, down to wearing letterman jackets.
- Perpetual Frowner: He constantly looks anxious and angry.
- Replacement Flat Character: Initially, Chad of the Virgin vs. Chad memes was rude, obnoxious, and deliberately did everything the Virgin wasn't doing because cool people don't act like virgins. When his character was made more into a general Big Man on Campus and the memes posited him as unironically cool, Reddit quickly made a replacement: enter Brad, an even more obnoxious, rude bully that's never as cool as he thinks he is.
- Teeny Weenie: Even worse than Virgin; his penis is completely absent.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Most memes will include at least one good or cool thing about him.
Cad
Cad
A scam artist with a 20s-60s vibe. He comes up with get-rich-quick schemes and has it in for Chad.- And I Must Scream: His basic situation as Cad Two.
- The Chew Toy: Zig-zagged. He is said to win as often as he loses, although his losses tend to be a lot more humiliating while his wins are (at most) getting laid or pulling off a scam.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Depending on the Writer; in some memes he's just a two-bit street schemer. In others, he's actively wealthy and uses the capitalist system to exploit workers.
- Creepy Crossdresser: When he escapes into the Gacyverse.
- Cult Defector: He defected from Occultist.
- Dastardly Whiplash
- Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: He always stops to cheat, even when playing fair would be better for him.
- The Dragon: As Cad 2, to the Occultist.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Yes, he's a selfish Jerkass who cons people out of their hard-earned (or in Brad's case, hard-inherited) money and slaps his henchmen. But even he is horrified by the results of his selling Gad an every-drug mixture, and would not have done so if he knew what would happen.
- Hidden Depths: he has a freinship with Shlad
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Often his downfall.
- Jerkass
- Nonstandard Character Design: He's in a different style from the other characters, and faces right, whereas most characters face left.
- Phrase Catcher: "Oh Cad, you scoundrel!"
- Throw the Dog a Bone: As mentioned above, he gets as many wins as loses. Most often when he gets away with scamming Brad.
- Unknown Rival: Chad has no idea that Cad hates him.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Selling Gad an every drug mixture.
Virgin Tier Characters
Wizard
Wizard (Classic)
Wizard (New)
A character that takes everything bad about the Virgin, and takes it up a notch. The name comes from a Japanese meme that you'll become a wizard if you're a virgin at 30.- Body Horror: His neck is craned incredibly far forwards, his hands are horribly mangled, and his hair resembles tentacles.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He's a horrifying abomination that barely even looks human. He's also so polite that he's grown angel wings.
- Humanoid Abomination: Seems to be one. His build is superficially humanoid, but with bizarre, completely inhuman attributes. In some cases, he doesn't even speak except for screeching.
- Insult to Rocks: Calling him a loser is an insult to losers.
- Long Neck: Both variants of Wizard have a long, deformed neck, caused by their horrible posture, as one of their defining traits.
- No Mouth: The original Wizard doesn't have a mouth, but the new one does.
- Non-Indicative Name: Despite being called the Wizard, he doesn't have any magical powers. Not even gaining them would improve his social standing.
- Perma-Stubble: A trait that both templates share.
- Stylistic Suck: Even moreso than the other characters, at least for the original. It's most noticeable with his coat.
- Super-Speed: While the Virgin just walks slightly faster than usual, the Wizard can walk at lightspeed.
Incel
Incel
A rather pathetic version of the Virgin.- Butt-Monkey: Everyone bullies him, even the Virgin.
- Dragon Ascendant: An unwilling one, but still.
- The Eeyore: Years of bullying have eroded all his emotions except for anger and sadness.
- Forced into Evil: Downplayed, but it's suggested that bullying and social isolation during his childhood played a major part in making him into the awful person he is today.
- Gag Haircut: Not even the meme can say anything about his haircut.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Moreso than most other members of the cast owing to him being named after an internet subculture note although this doesn't frequently come up in the comics.
- Straw Misogynist: His complete inability to get laid has turned him into quite the sexist. He's also too wimpy to play it off as a He-Man Woman Hater.
- Teeny Weenie: He's constantly trying out experimental drugs to extend his micropenis.
Neckbeard
Neckbeard
An even more pathetic version of the Virgin, and the last stage before the Wizard.- Basement-Dweller: The classical image of one.
- Fat Bastard: He's repulsively obese due to only moving to play video games and wank.
- Jerkass: He gains mild sexual pleasure from annoying people on the internet.
- Otaku: He looks the part, carrying around a body pillow and wearing a fedora at all times.
- Teeny Weenie: His has completely withered away, due to too much wanking to pedophilic furry porn.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: His portrayal can come across as this; he's obviously an unpleasant person but there's a self-satisfied air to him.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: An extreme example of the Fan Disservice variety.
Grand Wizard
Grand Wizard
The opposite of Thad, the Grand Wizard is a direct exaggeration of everything bad about the Wizard.- Body Horror: To an even worse degree than the regular Wizard.
- Fat Bastard: Incredibly obese, to the point where his legs are crushed by his immense mass and he can't reach his headphones. Though he is simultaneously deathly scrawny, with a visible ribcage and spindly arms.
- Horrifying the Horror: He is immortal, because Death refuses to take him.
- Insult to Rocks: According to the original template, calling him a wizard is an insult to Wizards.
- Obliviously Evil: The Grand Wizard thinks he's all right.
- Walking Wasteland: Because he never washes, he's surrounded by a thick toxic cloud. Anyone within 100 miles will die, and anyone within 1000 miles will contract cancer.
Wraith
The opposite of Lad, the Wraith is so Virgin he loops back around to being adored.
- Big Damn Heroes: When the Gizzard's forces are about to beat a traumatized Shlad, an army of Wraiths arrives in a convoy of tonka trucks to help him.
- Body Horror: Resembles a hybrid between a man, a spider, and a camel, with human flesh.
- Kavorka Man: Ugly as sin, but apparently gets as many Stacies as Chad himself.
- Refuge in Audacity: A Wizard taken to such an extreme he's seen as confident instead of gross.
- Ugly Cute: In-Universe.
- So Bad, It's Good: in-universe. He is so Wizard-like that he loops right back into being adored by many.
- The Woobie: Exploited.
Gizzard
The Chadiverse equivalant of the Devil.
- Ambiguously Gay: He kisses Gad, but whether that's an actual reflection of homosexuality is unclear. He also doesn't know what a woman is.
- Big Bad: He's the source of all creepy virgin energy.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: His eight heads can see the actions of all life in the universe... but he chooses not to, like a true Wizard.
- Ditzy Genius: Exaggerated. He's omniscient but the only thing he doesn't know about is women.
- Eldritch Abomination: He looks far more disturbing and inhuman than any other character in the meme.
- Physical God
- Tsundere: Sometimes this to Gad.
Occultist
An ancient evil who often changes forms, and served the Gizzard.
- Absolute Xenophobe: He REALLY hates Chads.
- Big Bad: After he gave up on Gizzard as a leader, although he'd rather be The Dragon.
- The Creon: Was this to the Gizzard, his main goal was once to summon him to the physical realm and serve him. After Gizzard made peace with Gad, he abandoned him, but still seeks out somebody else to lead his dystopia rather than himself.
- The Dragon: Initially, to Gizzard.
- Hero Killer: Has his servants feed him Chads for fuel.
- Horrifying the Horror: Gizzard is scared of him.
- Demonic Possession: What he dPossessionoes to Incel, turning him into the Incultist.
- In the Hood: One of his forms.
- Only Sane Man: Of Gizzard's followers.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Back when he was a giant head in a tank.
- Those Two Guys: With President Grand Wizard during the Gizzardverse Arc.
- Walking Wasteland: During and after the Gizzardverse, he is a living pile of stench.
The Ladies
Becky
Becky
The female version of the Virgin. Stacy
Stacy
The female version of Chad. The goal of every male character is to have sex with her.- Distaff Counterpart: To Chad.
- Informed Attractiveness
Tracy
The female version of Thad.
- Death Glare: Capable of withering stares that can eradicate Beckies.
- Even the Girls Want Her: She can turn straight chicks lesbian.
- Explosive Breeder: Tracy doesn't give birth to single children, she has litters of 15.
- Good Is Not Soft: Just like Thad, she is a Bully Hunter.
- Impossible Hourglass Figure: Enormous breasts and hips coupled with a waist that looks like the average person could fit both hands around it.
- Playful Hacker: She hacks into other people's phones and deletes pictures used for bullying.
- Telepathy: Rather than using SnapChat, she sends nudes to Thad with her mind.
Lacy
The female version of Lad.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: If we assume that Lacy's the Distaff Counterpart to Lad. She might've been a Becky and wished to be better than a Stacy.
- Body Horror: Judging by her appearance, she's essentially an exaggerated Tracy with extremely large breasts, ridiculously long hair, and hideously large lips.
- Butter Face: Despite her face otherwise looking quite average, Lacy's lips appear to be swollen to the point they look like she injected a huge amount of Botox in it.
- D-Cup Distress: Her breasts are so immense that she's doomed to an eternity of back pain.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Inverted. She turns lesbians straight.
- Godiva Hair: Justified since she has a very long hair in which it (almost) completely covers her breasts.
- Hartman Hips: Of course, despite her appearance.
Gacy
The female version of Gad, and the Goddess of the Chadiverse.
Veronica
Brandy
The female version of Brad.
- Alpha Bitch: Assuming as a Distaff Counterpart to Brad. She can be a bully to Beckies and Stacies alike.
- Dirty Coward: She'll pick on those she sees as weak all the time, but a single glare from Tracy can send her scurrying.
- Female Misogynist: At times, she gets depicted as believing that a woman's worth is dependent on whether she has a boyfriend/husband or not. These versions of her will often be depicted as having an Inferiority Superiority Complex.
- Heteronormative Crusader: Depending on the Writer, of course, but some memes depict her as being judgmental about other peoples' love lives, if not outright queerphobic.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Sometimes, she gets depicted as acting like an egotistical "queen bee" to cover up for the fact that she's deeply insecure and extremely dependent on other peoples' opinions.
Witch
Witch (Classic)
Witch (Redesign)
The female version of the Wizard.- Baldness Means Sickness: Due to constant stress, all her hair has fallen out. She wears a headpiece made from cat hair.
- Crazy Cat Lady: She owns dozens of cats, but not even they see her as friends, and she's constantly covered in scratches.
- Distaff Counterpart: To Wizard.
- Inept Mage: The only spell she knows is one that makes everyone leave the room in disgust.
Femcel
Femcel
The female version of the Incel.- In the Hood: Nobody knows what her hair looks like, because she always keeps her hood up.
- Straw Feminist: Being the female version of the Incel, she blames her lack of success in love on the entire male gender.
Legbeard
The female version of the Neckbeard.
- Straw Feminist: Of the Tumblrina variety.
