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The Red Pill: the movie about men that feminists didnt want you to see
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: December 12th, 2016
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/the-red-pill-the...
As part of her research for The Red Pill, American film maker Cassie Jaye spent hundreds of hours with the internets most notorious Mens Rights Activists (MRAs) over a two-and-a-half year period. She also interviewed some of their fiercest critics. Jaye began the process as a feminist, but she ended up not only sympathising with the MRAs, but fundamentally questioning the aggressive ethos of modern feminism. For her efforts, she says she has been smeared, threatened ... and even saw her funding dry up. But then something incredible happened: a Kickstarter fund ... raised a staggering $211,260, ensuring the movies cinematic release. The title The Red Pill refers to a scene in the Matrix, when Keanu Reeves character takes the red pill to see the truth MRAs claim they see the truth about women and a world they feel is systematically stacked against men and boys. When I started this project, my perception of MRAs was definitely negative, she tells me. I thought ... it would be a peek inside this mysterious, misogynistic community. But when I started to really listen to them, I started to empathise with a lot of their issues. Our cultural conditioning is that women have been oppressed and men are the oppressors. But I saw that wasnt so. Within the feminist community, there is a level of dismissiveness and a lack of compassion. There is a feeling they have been the oppressors, and now its our turn. Above all, Red Pill is not about attacking women: it is about supporting men. And that can only be a good thing.
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