redpill

Noun

red pill (plural red pills)

1. (informal) 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
2. (slang) 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
3. (broadly, slang) 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
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, pill.

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