red pill

red pillnoun

• 1

  informalSomething 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.
  • Do you want to continue to live in the false world of dieting, where emotional pain is numbed, health risks are ignored, and false promises are made? Or do you want to take the red pill, as it were, and see the reality of a world in which food and eating don't dominate or take over your life?
• 2

  slangSomething that causes someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.

  • One of the unfortunate outcomes of a red pill awakening (i.e. to learn the true nature of men, women, our culture's abject gynocentrism) is red pill rage: anger at the raw deal dealt to men by unconstrained gynocentrism and a sexual market place that is far too risky for an awakened man to tolerate.
  • 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.
• 3

  slangThe 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

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

red pillverb

• 1

  informalTo 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.
• 2

  slangTo 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.