red pill
red pill noun: something that, in the view of the speaker or writer, enables or compels a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.
Noun
red pill (plural red pills)
- 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.2003, Glenn Yeffeth, Taking the Red Pill, page 148
- 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?2011, Stephen Arterburn, Linda Mintle, Lose It for Life: The Total Solution, →ISBN, page 49
- Something 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.2019, 8. 8 Finger, Roger L'Estrange, Seneca, On Anger: Wisdom for Men: An Antidote for Red Pill Rage
- 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.2020, Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth about Extreme Misogyny and how it Affects Us All
- 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.2017, Peter Wright, Red Pill Psychology: Psychology for men in a gynocentric world
- 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.2017, Player Mastermind, Gold Diggers and Sugar Daddies: The Red Pill Guide to Hypergamy
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, pill.
Verb
red pill (third-person singular simple present red pills, present participle red pilling, simple past and past participle red pilled)
- 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.2018, Gautam Malkani, Distortion
- Being “red pilled” would surely soon become the rage.2019, Jack Suss, Soul Enticed II: More Essays in Unlearning, page 146
- 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.2019, Alexandra Minna Stern, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
Examples of red pill in a sentence
- 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.2021, DMPaul Smith, Taking The Red Pill - The Bitter Truth: The Red Pill Mindframe And Alpha Male Strategies to Avoid Female Manipulation...
- Indeed, this is the surprising core of the whole Red Pill theory of seduction: never stop begging for it.2019, Andrea Long Chu, Females:
- If you are attracted to the truths presented in Red Pill culture, but are put off by any morality or atheism present, this book is for you.2019, James a Deprisco, The Catholic Red Pill: A Guide for Men:
Forms of red pill
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | red pills |
| alternative form | redpill |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | red pills |
| present participle | red pilling |
| past participle | red pilled |
| past | red pilled |
Origin of red pill
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.
Words formed from red pill
Questions about red pill
- What does red pill mean?
- Red pill means something that, in the view of the speaker or writer, enables or compels a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.
- How do you use red pill in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is red pill?
- Red pill can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of red pill?
- The plural of red pill is red pills.
Words near red pill in the dictionary
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