pinkpill
pinkpill noun: a notional pill taken by femcels (female incels) who have adopted a nihilistic philosophy that unattractive women will never be sexually or romantically successful.
Noun
pinkpill (plural pinkpills)
- A notional pill taken by femcels (female incels) who have adopted a nihilistic philosophy that unattractive women will never be sexually or romantically successful.
- Interestingly, other pills, such as the purplepill and pinkpill, hint at some being undecided about whether dating is skewed in favour of one group or another and to femcels or female involuntarily celibates.2020, Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 10
- Femcels often refer to "Pink Pill" philosophy, a similarly desolate understanding of human nature in which sexually undesirable women are the victims of society's in-built "lookism," an immovable prejudice based on physical appearance.2021, Jilly Boyce Kay, “Abject Desires in the Age of Anger: Incels, femcels and the gender politics of unfuckability”, in Suzanne Leonard, Diane Negra, editors, Imagining "We" in the Age of "I"...
- A notional pill taken by those who have adopted a belief that as unattractive men they would be more attractive as trans women.
- Occasionally used by trans women to refer to estrogen pills.
Verb
pinkpill (third-person singular simple present pinkpills, present participle pinkpilling, simple past and past participle pinkpilled)
- General term used by black feminists to describe the whitewashing of feminism.
- To encourage a cisgender man to start take estrogen.
Forms of pinkpill
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pinkpills |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pinkpills |
| present participle | pinkpilling |
| past participle | pinkpilled |
| past | pinkpilled |
Origin of pinkpill
From pink + pill, after the pattern of red pill, and because of the association of pink with femininity.
Questions about pinkpill
- What does pinkpill mean?
- Pinkpill means a notional pill taken by femcels (female incels) who have adopted a nihilistic philosophy that unattractive women will never be sexually or romantically successful.
- What part of speech is pinkpill?
- Pinkpill can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of pinkpill?
- The plural of pinkpill is pinkpills.
Words near pinkpill in the dictionary
Source and license
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