So I got dumped in 2014. I discovered Bill Burr's You People Are All The Same standup routine, and for my broken hearted self then, it spoke to me. For those of you don't know, Burr jokes about women unable to have a rational argument, and using cheap debate tricks and emotional ploys to win arguments with men. Sorry, but the place I was in wasn't great. My thinking towards Burr in early 2015 was "OMG this guy is funny", late 2015 was "this is funny, but problematic", then in 2016 "OMG this guy is a fascist".

Another time I randomly found a dating app and profile on a girlfriend's phone when I was trying to connect her phone to the smart TV. There was a 45 minute space of time where I channeled all the hurt I ever felt in my past, and I started to think "yes all women are inherently selfish and deceitful". For that time, I was quite literally open to red-pill ideology. Thankfully I shook out of it. Having a support network to whinge about my pain helped too.

One bazillion percent, the dudes in my life have been worse than the women. Long term misogyny seems impossible.

  • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    The Red Pill was in my hand circa 2013. I was a terminally online facts-and-logic anti-SJW type who discovered Tumblr through the wrong channels. My view of the alternative was greatly distorted by the content I chose to consume. The only thing that kept me from swallowing The Red Pill is that I knew it would require me to accept some form of far right ideology. I got close though. Close enough that I may have even uttered aloud my discomfort with cultural marxism.

    It wasn't until I saw Hbomberguy's video about Davis Aurini and Gamergate that I realized that the opposition wasn't who they were made out to be. Hbomberguy showed me that the SJW's could be not only more rational but funnier and even more scathing. Instead of taking the red pill and being a fuddyduddy fascist, I could take the blue pill and be a dirtbag leftist.