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"It has convinced a significant number of young men that dating should be approached as this pop evo psych transactional thing where resources and alhpa status are traded for sex. The reality is just way more complicated than this. Like if you approach dating with this transactional type of mindset, "
"I hate 2023 so much man. The redpill has been one of the worst movements of the 21st century along with MeToo and BLM"
"The red pill on the other hand......there's a long list of problems with red pillers, but on top of everything, they are so goddamn humorless in comparison. Taking themselves way too seriously. Gotta poke fun at yourself!"
"He went through a very dark period after that: quitting his high paying job in London, started drinking a lot, isolating, started to watch women hating podcasts, started to blame women for everything, started to see all women as 'cheating whores'… he calls himself 'red pilled' …"
"I consumed a lot of red pill/manosphere content to try and make sense of the situation in the immediate aftermath and I'm having a hard time letting go of it despite the fact I know it's maladaptive and toxic. Idk I just noticed all the incel shit about hypergamy, pareto principle, Chad vs virgin, t"
"I remember when the red pill that this niche, chronically online thing, now I see normies talking about hypergamy, Chad, high value males, high value females etc. Even political figures have adopted some of the red pill rhetoric."
"in "red pill" parlance, she "failed" his shit test. congratulations to him i guess, but who has a problem here?"
"The deepest the show goes with it is the detective's kid literally just saying '80/20' and 'red pill' with zero clarification to explain to his dad the preceding context to the murder."
"It's like a mild version of the red pill, or maybe it is the red pill."
"Similarly, insecure guys flock to PUAs and end up learning specific social skills when they should be learning relationship basics. This is part of why we have incels, MGTOWs and red pill types."
"How many of these terms do you know? The cock carousel, Alpha fucks, beta bucks, The Wall, Chad, Tingles, AWALT (All women are like that), AFC (Average frustrated chump), Branch swinging, Dread game, Frame, Hamster, LMR"
"Over the last 5 years they've become obsessed with the anti-woke discourse, which is fine. I'm also tired of reactionary woke signaling- but they've also gone on to adopt these weird red pill/tradcath larp personas that just border on complete cringe"
"I remember when the manosphere was a niche Internet thing and I was called crazy for taking it somewhat seriously. Now the Red Pill is practically in charge."
"The incel level-up hypergamy FDS red pill way of speaking about it too."
"However, recently he's been showing weird and worrying signs of anti-social and misogynistic behavior that's really off-putting. He's been subscribing to and parroting PUA and red-pill talking points about how 'women only want money' and 'no woman can really be trusted these days' and shit like that"
"Red pilled men try to borderline or actually manipulate their way to get coochie and FDS women want men that are probably gonna settle for someone prettier and likeable."
"When I as a teen nervously flipped between the red pill blogs and feminist blogs of 2011, feminist conversations on eroticism seemed to be about specifically rationalizing that women have this preference"
"Everything is Red-Pill/Manosphere/Incel-adjacent talking points for the men, and for the women is Volcel/Fauxmoi/Girlboss sludge."