This was, as much as Lauren insisted otherwise, confirmation that most men on Red Pill end up there through the same set of circumstances. The Red Pill assured him that these insecurities weren't his own fault." He was angry, disillusioned, and felt there wasn't a place for him. He had first come across The Red Pill in his late teens after his girlfriend had cheated on him.
Her boyfriend, it turned out, was an MRA. "His explanation of how it had been a part of his life was common. I confronted him, accusing him of being a sexist, awful person." After Googling it, I recognised some of the language from things my boyfriend had said early in our relationship. "I was reading an article in a feminist newspaper which was decrying the 'manosphere'. "My boyfriend… although not in the way you might expect," she told me. When asked how she stumbled across RedPillWomen, Lauren laughed. She had made a conscious decision to "embrace being nice… as a woman", as she believed she was then "more likely to get a positive reaction than by being aggressive." Lauren wanted to be liked, understood and recognised. There's no denying that she was friendly. "Are you going to paint me as brainwashed?" she asked. She was worried if her real-world feminist friends found out about her affiliation with the contentious online community, she would be scorned. After being suspected of foul play and asked to provide photo identification, one user finally agreed to chat. Lauren* met my curiosity with politeness, asking only that she could remain anonymous. I sent private messages to these frequent commenters, trying to get one of them to talk to me.
#RED PILL MEN HOW TO#
Like "Questions About How to STFU"-where other women were encouraged to provide suggestions for how to not upset a male partner, who was referred to as their "Captain." As I started getting involved in the forum, I noticed women would happily comment on threads that made my feminist skin crawl.
I was so curious about who these women were that I decided to delve into Reddit's chamber of bigoted secrets. The fact that they subscribe to this dichotomy at all may be the most puzzling thing about them.
They didn't see themselves as the hot girl, but these women had never been able to quite make it as "one of the boys" either. It seemed like a online home for thousands of defeated women jealous of that girl at their high school with impeccably long legs who everyone's brother wanted to bang. My first impression of the group was fairly brutal. It's a feminine space, for sure-I mean, there's a pink background and cursive font. On its FAQ page, RedPillWomen describes its members as "self-aware women that work to identify their weaknesses, stifle their inner Bitch, and increase their female sexual value as much as possible in order to attract, or keep, a good Red Pill man." RedPillWomen members wanted me to know that the group is independent of its male counterpart, that it is owned and run by women.
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