It is not only feminism that those who take the red pill are awakened to. However, the red pill means something different in the context of the alt-right. Richard Spencer has videos on the topic, as do most other online personalities associated with the alt-right. The red-pill philosophy is also central to the alt-right. The red pill has an anti-feminist political philosophy built in that rejects the equality of women and the post-1960s politics of women’s empowerment. Neo is told the Matrix is “the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.”ĭebbie Ging, in her lucid explanation of the culture of the digital “manosphere,” writes that the red pill is a philosophy that “purports to awaken men to feminism’s misandry and brainwashing” that has elevated women to the position of dominance over men. Taking the red pill would begin his journey to the truth and see “how deep the rabbit hole goes.” On the other hand, the blue pill would allow Neo to walk away and continue his life of ignorance. Any fan of The Matrix already knows the outline: Neo, the film’s protagonist, is presented with the choice to take a red or blue pill. The story of this convergence begins with the idea of the red pill. This similar mindset between the identity of the incels and the worldview of the alt-right helps us to better understand how these two movements have converged and diverged in recent years.
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Its rallying cry is to defend Western civilization from “white genocide,” a code used to masquerade the vision of cultural purity in the costume of collective victimhood. Its white supremacist vision stresses the erasure of European culture by elites and immigrants. The twisting of a dominating impulse into a cry for redressing injustice also echoes across the alt-right. Incel engenders a hateful identity toward women premised on male fragility. Rather, it is a form of oppression perpetrated upon him by women who ignore him or reject his advances. Writing in The New Yorker, Jia Tolentino argues that sex is “defined to them as dominion over female bodies.” What is interesting about this claim to women’s bodies is that it is articulated through a sense of victimhood: It is not, apparently, the incel’s fault that he is unable to find sexual partner.
The incel identity is violently misogynistic. The term came into prominence in the corners of the “manosphere,” a loose coalition of men’s rights activists, bloggers, participants in pick-up artist forums in addition to audiences across social media platforms, primarily Reddit and 4chan. “Incel” signifies an “involuntary celibate” - a male oppressed by the injustice of women who refuse to have sex with him. Taking the red pill, for both the manosphere and the alt-right, is the beginning of a process of radicalization in which an individual becomes enculturated in an extreme, reactionary worldview.Īlek Minassian’s vehicular attack in Toronto in April has brought the term “incel” into the public spotlight.
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