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user-inactivated  ·  4165 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: “Alpha Male” Elliot Rodgers’ Retribution

    Maybe some people will come to their senses upon realizing how much of that worldview stems from sheer hate.

For the record, I am not an adherent of the red pill/ men's rights association, but perhaps those movements are a counterreaction to certain feminist groups?





zebra2  ·  4165 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It definitely is, but if you look around these movements (Red Pill in particular, "men's rights" is such an amalgam of things it's harder to generalize) you'll see that they borrow heavily from plain misogyny to fuel themselves.

The Red Pill is an odd creature. Half of it is centralized around this alpha/beta doctrine which they take stupid seriously, and in that essence it's a sort of self-help cult. The other half is the antithesis of self-help: just blaming women for your sexual frustration. It's saying women are at fault for this ridiculous alpha/beta thing that you're totally gonna embrace, but yeah, it's all women's fault.