Though much of the forum – since closed down by Reddit – was dedicated to rallying against feminism, sharing advice on how to pursue women and spouting misogynistic, sexist bile, Dignam and Rohlinger credit it with helping to mobilise alt-right “men’s rights activists” who saw Trump as a “real man”, a proper leader. Reality is happening, and we need to make sure that we adjust our strategy accordingly.” It puts women into the best position they can find, to select mates, to determine when they want to switch mates, to locate the best DNA possible, and to garner the most resources they can individually achieve. They quote an early post by the creator of the forum: “Feminism is a sexual strategy. “These men long for a past where masculinity could be performed purely through physical, economic, and sexual prowess and explicitly push back against feminism by establishing a sexual strategy for men,” the authors wrote in their paper, “Misogynistic Men Online: How the Red Pill Helped Elect Trump”. Rohlinger, was to “expose the ‘true nature’ of feminism as oppressive to men and to help men reclaim their ‘rightful place’ in society”. Its purported aim, according to the academics Pierce Alexander Dignam and Deana A. In 2012, The Red Pill forum appeared on Reddit, cementing a bad faith interpretation of the scene that had been circulating for some years online. But, out in our real world, the sequence was adopted as a symbol for a movement filled with violence, misogyny and hate. The scene after Neo takes the Red Pill, in which he “wakes up” in the real world, is key to the interpretation of the film as a trans allegory. Take the Red Pill, “you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes”. In the original Matrix, released in 1999, Neo (Keanu Reeves) is presented with a choice: Take the Blue Pill, and live obliviously in the simulation. Which makes it all the stranger that it’s been co-opted by the alt-right. The Matrix is a subversively queer film: an allegory for the trans experience, made by Hollywood’s two most prolific and influential trans women.
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