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"How Many Bones Would you Break to get Laid?". The female counterpart to the Chad, in slang, is the " Stacy", or originally, the "Trixie". Due to their characterisation as being genetically gifted and privileged-though sometimes depicted as shallow, air-headed, arrogant, and overtly sexual -the term Chad is used in both a pejorative and complimentary way on incel forums. The term Chad is sometimes used interchangeably with "slayer". Chads are sometimes portrayed as the opposite to "omega" or "beta" males, and as physically attractive. Chad" internet meme of the late 2010s, contrasts an introverted and insecure "Virgin" with a muscular and egotistical "Chad".

In online animation drawings in the manosphere, a Chad is further tagged with an explicit last name and is often depicted as a muscular blond man with very pronounced masculine features. Within the manosphere, Chads are generally viewed as constituting the top decile in terms of genetic fitness. The term later came into use in incel forums to refer to sexually active, genetically superior men, or " alpha males". Memes A way of describing cultural information being shared. A Chad was initially depicted as originating in Chicago's affluent North Shore suburbs ( Highland Park, Evanston, Deerfield, Northbrook, Glenview, Glencoe, Winnetka, Wilmette, or Lake Forest), receiving a BMW for his 16th birthday, obtaining a law or business degree from a Big Ten university, belonging to a fraternity, moving to Lincoln Park, marrying a " Trixie", and then moving back to the North Shore suburbs. In Chicago, the term was covered by a satirical website dedicated to the Lincoln Park Chad Society, a fictional social club based in Chicago's upscale Lincoln Park neighborhood. The slang term "Chad" came into use in Chicago as a derogatory way to describe a young urban American man, typically single and in his twenties or early thirties.

In modern internet slang, the term can be similar to " bro" and generally refers to an " alpha male" or otherwise a genetically superior male. The slang term Chad originates in Chicago as a pejorative term for young, upper-class, urban males.
