The online community hosted on Reddit is where men go to air their toxic views about women. Stephen Marche aims to find out if The Red Pill is perpetuating a culture of hatred – or if it’s just a place to vent
How shitty are men really? The question hung in the air, invisible but omnipresent, like the smell of a garbage fire from a nearby town. By 2016, a series of catchphrases had come to dominate the chaotic state of gender politics – “male privilege”, “rape culture”, “men’s rights” – but confusion reigned. And in the middle of this confusion, a group of anonymous men retreated to The Red Pill, an online community hosted on Reddit, to revel in their loathing. |
- Stephen Marche, Swallowing the Red Pill: a journey to the heart of modern misogyny, The Guardian, April 14, 2016
Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Lee Miller (1937). Copyright Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2015.
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