The Red Pill
The Red Pill
R | 14 October 2016 (USA)
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When a feminist filmmaker sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men’s Rights Movement, she begins to question her own beliefs. Chronicling Cassie Jaye’s journey exploring an alternate perspective on gender equality, power and privilege.

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Rijndri

Load of rubbish!!

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Reptileenbu

Did you people see the same film I saw?

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SeeQuant

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

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Aneesa Wardle

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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christineleann-214-32473

This was an amazing movie. Thank you for making it, and listening to the mens movement.

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sherylchilders82

I wanted to cry at the end of this, not because I felt like I had learned anything new, but because it reinforced what I already knew - that sexism is on the rise, especially in young women. The only people that come away from this and feel like their opinion is changed, are people that were influenced by sexist beliefs in the first place. Personally, I had not identified as feminist until recently, but it turns out, I have always been for gender equality. But, because of the labeling of older feminists as "radical feminists", I had felt that that was an insult, and did not want to be considered disagreeable. Younger people now do not understand that "radical feminist" is not a new insult. That was what killed the movement in the 1980s when the ERA failed to pass, which is now only having a "second wave" due to current politics. Men's rights are not a backlash to feminism - they are hijacking it. It is an inside job. The last argument focuses on circumcision, but what the narrator doesn't seem to understand is that it was the same people in the 1970s that fought for sexual and racial equality, that also fought against things like circumcision. And the women's movement has never claimed that there aren't victims and perpetrators on both sides - that is the opposite of what it claims, since it posits that men and women are equal (and therefore equally capable of being good and bad). While thought provoking, I find that this documentary impassions where feminists already had compassion. The fact that the filmmaker didn't know about these issues is what really terrifies me. Women WANT to dig ditches, we WANT to fight and die in wars. We don't want to be the first person off the boat. And we certainly don't want to coddle men's emotions, just as we don't want women to be coddled. But, you will find that while some men are saying that women have it better than men, they are predominately the same people fighting to keep things the way they are (while not necessarily the men in this film). I think what we see here is an example of men taking their own individual experiences, in which they were negatively effected by a woman or sexism in general, and they are incorrectly extrapolating it to mean that feminism overall is bad. The fact that it does not address benevolent sexism is also troubling (when men treat women as if they are in need of protection). In other words, it focuses on the plight of men suffering for the sacrifice of protecting women, but it fails to expand on why that mentality is bad for women, too (it weakens their social power outside of the context of war and labor, which justifies inequality). Men who demonstrate benevolent sexism are also more likely to demonstrate hostile sexism - the type that we are familiar with, because the two things are related. Those of us who truly understand what sexism is, have always known that the pedestal which women are placed on is in fact imaginary, and men choose to continue making sacrifices (like fighting in wars), because it reinforces their superiority as humans. Real feminists want the opportunity to die for a cause - they want to be able to say they earned their privilege. Because the driving force of human behavior is to do something good for others and to have value in society, even as a ditch digger. It is a privilege to say that you are the breadwinner, and that you did the work. Anti-feminists, like the woman in this film, fail to acknowledge that unfair privilege is harmful to men, by treating them as inferior in a way, needing an unfair advantage, and to be lied to about their true value. The fact that the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram was so publicized is also an example of benevolent sexism, where significant attention was given because of the underlying belief that women are more vulnerable and needing protection. THAT is sexism, not the fact that so many boys were killed, too, which is of course a grave tragedy, and no true feminist would ever say that it wasn't. So, instead of abandoning the idea of feminism as sexual equality for all, why not just acknowledge that you never truly understood it to begin with?

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dj-anti-matter

Watched this entire thing in full,This doesn't deserve to be called a documentary. It may as well be a nothing more than a propaganda piece for the MRM. Do not waste your time on it. If you decide to watch it make sure you actively research every person interviewed to understand exactly who they are.Just 1 example: Paul Elam, a deadbeat father who openly has stated he would never vote to convict if serving on a rape jury. It goes downhill from there rapidly.If these specimens are what today's American society considers men, I'm ashamed to be one.

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Emphinix

Earlier this year I saw this documentary and when I saw the whole thing I was like...Wow! Because the documentary is about the journey of a staunch feminist who tries to explore the Men's Rights Association and try to expose it as an organization that is sexist and misogynistic. But then during her journey, she begins to question her own feminist views.Now, this documentary is pretty fair to both sides and does not say things like "F--- the Feminist Movement" or "F--- the MRAs". And also when I heard about how many feminists protested the screening of the film, I decided to see for myself and now I understand the reason why feminists wanted this film banned.It's because they're so afraid of the truth that men suffer so much and how the double standards of the feminist movement poison everything. It is also shown how feminists hate it when a non-feminist try to speak up and try to silence them because they're so indoctrinated and so narcissistic that they act like the Spanish Inquisition and the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages.This documentary proves that men are seen as expendable, how they get screwed over in family courts, the fallacies of the so-called "rape culture", and statistics that show the sad truth and major differences between men and women.Of course, after this documentary, feminists would call Cassie Jaye a traitor and a sell-out, which is a typical reaction you'd expect from a feminist. Because it's like when you join their movement, you belong to them.There is so much people can learn through this documentary. Every man and woman should see this. For if you seek equality, we must sit down and talk things without silencing anyone.

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