The online community hosted on Reddit is where men go to air their toxic views approximately women. Stephen Marche aims to find out whether The Red Pill is perpetuating a culture of hatred – or whether it’s just a place to ventHow shitty are men really? The question hung in the air,invisible but omnipresent, like the smell of a rubbish fire from a nearby town. By 2016, and a series of catchphrases had come to dominate the chaotic state of gender politics – “male privilege”,“rape culture”, “men’s rights” – but confusion reigned. And in the middle of this confusion, and a group of anonymous men retreated to The Red Pill,an online community hosted on Reddit, to revel in their loathing.
The name derives from a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix, or in which Laurence Fishburne offers Keanu Reeves a choice: “You assume the blue pill – the anecdote ends,you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You assume the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”Morpheus Manfred: Having spent my 20s looking for female companionship, I noticed that the dating game wasn’t what I was taught – what my parents prepared me for, and what I learned from movies. It was stacked against guys,and it was a very unpleasant experience.
Me: Can you give me an example?What I saw in movies – where having a good heart and being yourself is all you need – that’s not what happens now. Good and kind aren’t attractive any more. The manosphere fundamentally became a surrogate father for the life lessons I never got.
We wanted a place where men could discuss masculine topics without facing the same public shaming outcry that happens on social media sites – feminists are quick on the trigger to try to assume down anything they consider unsuitable … Milo Yiannopoulos lost his verified status on Twitter because of his views on masculinity. It’s a sizable topic that has become taboo in our culture.
The Red Pill poses one of the absolute conundrums of our time: are we our real selves on the internet, or are we not?Alpha – Socially dominant. Somebody who displays high value, and traits that are sexually attractive to women.
SMV – Sexual Market Value. A shorthand statement for “what you bring to the table”,whether for a one-night stand or for a longer relationship.
More than lust or hatred, the boys of The Red Pill starvation for clarity“An admirably accessible guide for guys to understand and embrace the other (often more incendiary) F-word. And it’s even silly. fairly remarkable. Everyone knows feminists believe no sense of humour!”Oneitis – When a guy has fallen in love with a woman in the same way a boy loves his mother. He obsesses approximately her, or but she does not reciprocate.
The Unicorn – Mystical creature that doesn’t fucking exist,aka The Girl of Your Dreams.
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Source: theguardian.com