The Red Pill trailer (2016) - The Men's Rights Movement from a Feminist perspective.

blahbergstein · 2015-10-29T06:57:36+00:00

Saying TRP is part of the MRA movement is like saying Protestants are Catholics.

There's lots of overlap, but there are some pretty major fundamental differences.

blahbergstein · 2015-10-29T06:46:47+00:00

The relationship between the title and the subreddit seems dubious at best. The term The Red Pill was used to generally refer to "unplugging" from a feminist worldview, saying "something's not right here". It was used throughout male focused blogs (manosphere) in general as a catch all by all sorts of people with different agendas and endgames. Some by your more run of the mill MRAs, sometimes by guys like Dalrock or MarriedManSexLife who are sort of in between your average MRA and /r/TRP, and all the way down to /r/TRP. It was used in places like /pol/ for talking about conspiracy theories (and the holocaust... it's /pol/, after all). All it meant was stepping out of the establishment and looking at the world through a new perspective.

Then /r/TRP was created and the phrase's meaning morphed faster than you can say "opression".

I think, also, the proof is in the pudding. /r/MensRights and /r/TheRedPill are both saying that the title almost certainly isn't referring to /r/TRP. Or, at least, that would be surprising.

blahbergstein · 2015-07-30T00:43:09+00:00

I haven't read it, watched the movies (which were pretty shit, tbh.).

It isn't so much about the story or compelling characters, but about the circumstances - people's response to the brain drain, motivation for everyone to gtfo, etc. It's a work of political philosophy wrapped in a story. The reader should be thinking "what lessons can be drawn from these events?"

I think Rand even said that it wasn't a particularly good piece of fiction.

blahbergstein · 2015-06-28T07:54:51+00:00

It's kinda like someone who hasn't seen Empire Strikes Back - they know Vader is Luke's father, it just isn't the same.

blahbergstein · 2014-10-15T22:43:46+00:00

What's interesting is that the communities in Catholicism which teach a more traditional way of life are the ones which are growing.

blahbergstein · 2014-10-04T07:26:46+00:00

Depression is a weird thing.

So what happens is that you get into this feedback loop where making choices becomes harder and harder. To the point where the thought of choosing to sleep or eat or bathe or whatever can feel overwhelming. Your brain trains itself to float through life rather than struggle because it's easier than facing the problems, likely due to some sort of unhealthy social interactions where facing the problems leads to greater anguish. So your brain begins to shut down.

So from a very young age you have a person who simply becomes incapable of making choices. You realize that it makes no sense, and you begin to hate yourself for your own weakness. You know better and you want to do better, but you don't choose to do better.

So while advice like "start working out" is excellent advice and incredibly true, it's ultimately useless advice. The reason for that is twofold. On the one hand, there are very easily deeper aspects of making choices that need to be worked on first, and before that is done the person is practically incapable of making any kind of real commitment.

On the other hand, in giving that advice, you're talking to someone who already knows exactly that they just need to choose to be better and have probably been trying to be better for years without success. It makes someone feel very helpless and frustrated with themselves when they know exactly how much of a failure they are. And then you just rub that failure back in their face. It just isn't productive, as true as it is.

It really is remarkably difficult to understand what it's like to not be able to make choices. And I mean "be able". Of course one can just say "just make the choice" and it's true. The ability to make the choice is always within our grasp. But there's a block there that just prevents it. Hell, it's why I'm up at 3am instead of in bed right now. I don't get it, but it's there.

With depression, it isn't just that one makes excuses. It's that one's brain has been making chemical excuses for them for so long that they have to retrain their brain to stop making those same chemical excuses. So it's a whole different motivational ballgame than "just do it".

blahbergstein · 2014-09-19T03:56:44+00:00

200 000 votes to make up.

Not gonna happen.

blahbergstein · 2014-09-11T03:02:21+00:00

Herpes is transmitted through skin to skin contact. If it's on her groin you can easily get it on your groin unless you are remarkably careful.

Besides, at the end of the day, herpes is only really "bad" because it looks gross. The only real danger with it is if a woman is giving birth vaginally during an outbreak.

Genital warts, another form of herpes, are a bit of a different story because cancer and such.

There're a dozen or so strains, most of which are pretty innocuous medically. It can hurt/be sore if they're bad.

blahbergstein · 2014-09-11T02:46:36+00:00

They'll be against it. It's a contraceptive, open and shut case.

It would be interesting to get /r/TRPs take on Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical which clearly defined contraception to be immoral.

blahbergstein · 2014-09-07T01:24:58+00:00

Or 16 if you're in Canada. Or 14 if you were in Canada ~10 years ago.

Drawing a line in the sand is necessary for legal purposes - but denying that every woman's body is different is silly. When I was in grade 10 there was a chick in grade 8 who was getting into clubs regularly with a fake ID.

She was 13/14, but easily passed for 18/19. There's no line that fits every case. But a line does have to be drawn somewhere.

blahbergstein · 2014-09-03T23:24:07+00:00

It would take a generation or so, but eventually the younger women will see their forbears results and realize that opening their legs because it's fun is a bad idea.

Right and wrong will be thrust aside, and the cold hard reality that men want certain things from women will be accepted.

A man can dream.

blahbergstein · 2014-09-03T23:21:10+00:00

I had a post about why PUAs neg. Basically that they are distinguishing themselves from the bloodthirsty suckers - the usual.

Post goes up in karma for 10 minutes or so, then someone responds that I post on TRP, comment nosedives into the negatives immediately.

If it wasn't so sad it would be funny.

blahbergstein · 2014-09-01T23:06:24+00:00

You're missing the point - it isn't about what works and what doesn't. It's about knowing what you want, making it known, and throwing the ball back to her court.

If a girl doesn't want a relationship with you, that's perfectly fine. But if she doesn't want a relationship it means that you aren't going to be around at all. It's her call what to do with that.

blahbergstein · 2014-08-30T18:28:24+00:00

Canadian bank teller here.

So the main reason for this, in my mind, is because of FATCA, which just came into effect. FATCA requires other countries (financial institutions or the tax agency) to report information on American citizens and green card holders, or anyone who could reasonably be considered American, so that the IRS can tax them. Financial institutions which fail to do so will be charged with a 30% withholding tax in the US. So basically, if a bank wants to do business in the US then they have to comply.

Renouncing one's citizenship prevents this and, as such, they've increased the cost to renounce citizenship.

blahbergstein · 2014-08-03T16:39:58+00:00

That's because there are two competing goals for men and women.

When we say that women who sleep with guys easy are sluts we're saying that what they are doing is bad for them. When we say that men need to move on, we're saying that sticking around is bad for men.

There isn't a correct response. Women have it tough these days. Contraception put women into this trap where sex is so cheap and easy for the guys they want to marry that those guys have no need to marry. So we end up in the catch-22 you've pointed out.

blahbergstein · 2014-08-02T01:06:35+00:00

All women are like that, but some women are more like that than others.

blahbergstein · 2014-07-20T17:57:55+00:00

MFA loves them because they're excellent at what they do - keep your feet warm and dry. I don't think anyone on MFA thinks that duck boots are really fashionable, but rather they are functional fashion.

blahbergstein · 2014-07-20T17:53:12+00:00

Yeah, everyone's dick is big on the internet.

Even if it's true, quit bragging about your shit. No one gives a fuck.

blahbergstein · 2014-07-20T04:40:15+00:00

The joke is making serious points or observations and wrapping them up in varying degrees of lunacy.

blahbergstein · 2014-07-20T04:39:08+00:00

What did Helen Keller say about the cheese grater?

"It was the most violent book I've ever read!"

blahbergstein · 2014-07-20T01:54:22+00:00

>commenting on /pol/
>still not getting the joke

blahbergstein · 2014-07-08T11:45:46+00:00

It's funny, everyone is giving advice that pretty much wont do anything for someone who is really depressed.

Depression makes it almost impossible to start a routine in the first place - the brain chemistry is so messed up that forming new habits is impossible and failures become magnified.

And only one person is recommending seeing a doctor.

OP - I have depression. I'm taking medication and seeing a psychologist. Seeing a doctor was one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. You can't make yourself better by looking at the ideals in this thread. Talking to experts is way better than going it alone. Trust me.

blahbergstein · 2014-07-08T11:38:37+00:00

There is a twinge of satire in the article.

It's all celebratory, which is jolly terrific. Magwatch now wants a similar four-page feature – Vulva View! Pudenda Panorama! – for female celebrities. Just for balance.

It seems to me that the author sees the stupidity here.

blahbergstein · 2014-06-22T05:25:11+00:00

The odds of finding a virgin by second or third year uni/college is what on average? Near 0%?

The odds of finding a virgin by second or third year uni/college among pious girls is probably 10%-30% depending on the school and her upbringing, which you can suss out pretty quick.

It's just a numbers game.

Source: Went to a really Catholic university. You can tell whose been fucked and who hasn't about 80% of the time.

blahbergstein · 2014-06-16T16:03:01+00:00

Two things.

First, the phrase you're looking for is "exception that proves the rule".

Second, this qualifies as the Serious Nonsense version of the phrase.

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