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red pill

noun

Etymology

From a scene in the film The Matrix (1999), where the main character, who lives in a virtual world known as the Matrix, is given a choice between a red pill that will allow him to learn the truth about the Matrix and a blue pill that will return him to his simulated life.

Definitions

  1. Something that, in the view of the speaker or writer, enables or compels a person to…

    Something that, in the view of the speaker or writer, enables or compels a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.

    • To take the red pill is to choose to take responsibility for our lives, both on the personal and larger social levels.
    • We can offer ourselves the option of taking the red pill and, when the circumstances are right, we shall not be able to resist the lure of the naked truth; however hard it may be to stare it in the face.

  2. Something that causes someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.

    • The foundational tenet of taking the red pill is at the root of almost all the major manosphere groups we will look at in this book, including pickup artists, so-called Men's Rights Activists, and Men Going Their Own Way.
    • Reading this book and taking the red pill will give you the red pill mindframe and liberate you from simping and you'll receive wisdom in dealing with women and avoiding manipulation.

  3. The subculture of men who share a belief in the gynocentrism of modern society

    The subculture of men who share a belief in the gynocentrism of modern society; manosphere.

    • Most red pill thinkers will have already debunked this one and replaced it with a better story.
    • With the growth of 'the red pill' and similar such groups among men there is a growing realisation that life is very different in dating for 'alpha males' compared to everyone else.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, pill.

    2. To enable a person to overcome (what the speaker or writer believes to be) illusion and…

      To enable a person to overcome (what the speaker or writer believes to be) illusion and thus to perceive harsher reality.

      • Fuck's sake. All this brainful red-pilling and you just trying to throw me off the trail again.
      • Being “red pilled” would surely soon become the rage.

    3. To cause someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.

      • YouTuber and sister traditionalist Lacey Lynn commented on this video, extolling Faucheux and Collett because they had “red pilled me and I owe yall so much.

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