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The Red Pill

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The Red Pill	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Red Pill is a 2016 American documentary film that explores the Men's Rights Movement. It was produced and directed by film director and actor Cassie Jaye.The film is the culmination of interviews and research Jaye did over the course of a year. At the start Jaye was skeptical towards the Men's Rights Movement, something she believed to be a hate movement. The film is her journey of a largely academic exploration as to the origins of true Men's Rights activism, something that focuses on equality through a male lens to the world.There has been criticism of the film, as in some ways it is framed to suggest that Jaye, an oft-typecasted "Dumb Blonde" in her previous short-lived acting career, is denouncing feminism. However, it is a personal story of a personal journey and can be given validity as such. Jaye says she was more driven to make the film and see why people who claimed not to be misogynists supported Men's Rights because producers would only fund the documentary if it were given a feminist bias. Also, she was allegedly disqualified from applying to film production grants in the "female director" categories because of the subject matter, though this was reported by Breitbart so can be taken with a pinch of salt.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This, Jaye claims, caught her eye: there is funding support for female directors and filmmakers of color but not for white men. This is what she claims to see the Men's Rights Movement as being about: a completely equal playing field.The documentary largely focuses on the societal double standards around legal recourse for men as "masculine" compared to women: both standards and media representation of marriage and childcare, rape and abuse, appropriate jobs and workplace conditions.With the filmmaker being a woman, The Red Pill can be analyzed as having the Female Gaze applied. It could be argued that this is one way in which any potential controversy from individual toxic Men's Rights activists may be neutered in effect by the female direction and language of the film on a large scale.It was released on October 7th, 2016. For the similarly-named trope after which the movie is indirectly named, see Red Pill, Blue Pill.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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The Red Pill / int_203b5242	type	Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
The Red Pill / int_203b5242	comment	Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Cassie discusses how domestic abuse statistics are often misrepresented, or selectively applied in ways that lead to the prosecution of men, mainly in men being singled out as the perpetrators - but never victims - in domestic abuse cases.
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The Red Pill / int_3763bcf8	comment	False Rape Accusation: Cassie discusses how damning the accusation is and how it can destroy men's lives. She also interviews several men who say they were subjected to this by women they knew, and discusses the effect in had on their lives.
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The Red Pill / int_4b1247b8	comment	It's a reference to the slang phrase "red pill" from MGTOW note Men Going Their Own Way and MRA note Men's Rights Activists circles, which is in and of itself a reference to the Red Pill, Blue Pill concept made famous in The Matrix. Though each circle pursues it differently, there is some overlap and for both it means the rejection of society's expectations and the mainstream, but the slang term also refers to the rejection of what society and the mainstream expect of men and women.
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The Red Pill / int_62663d88	type	Men Don't Cry
The Red Pill / int_62663d88	comment	Men Don't Cry: The film defies this trope whenever a man cries during an interview. They aren't treated like they are weak when this happens, which is an aspect of narrative for the topic of the film.
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The Red Pill / int_913f683a	comment	One of the prominent points discussed within the film is women's exemption from the draft. This was something Jaye herself (from the start) conceded was in women's favor and was a prominent talking point with Paul Elam.
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The Red Pill / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
The Red Pill / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: One of the prominent points discussed within the film is women's exemption from the draft. This was something Jaye herself (from the start) conceded was in women's favor and was a prominent talking point with Paul Elam. The trope is also discussed in relation to how society at large sidelines or suppresses men's issues and posited as a reason for it. Activists cite the fact that high fatality jobs are disproportionately staffed by men (leading to them being the majority of work fatalities). Activists cite news media coverage over homicides that highlight female victims far more than men. Activists cite similar rates of prostate cancer-related deaths to breast cancer, yet getting much less support.
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The Red Pill / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: The film focuses on the Men's Rights Movement because of their comparative under-representation in media and because Cassie — who was a feminist at the start of filming — wanted to criticize the movement. Even at the beginning of film-making, when Cassie Jaye was a supporter of feminism, she says that the Men's Rights Movement has a point and that MRA's have legitimate grievances.
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The Red Pill / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Cassie talked with several men who were victims of domestic violence from their female partners, with no help from the police. One was even warned that if she hurt herself striking him he would be prosecuted. Many US states' domestic violence laws are based on the Duluth Model, which declares men to be the sole perpetrators and women the sole victims. Activists discuss with her that almost no abuse shelters take male victims, a talking point of dubious veracitynote While there are very few abuse shelters in the USA that exclusively take in male victims and many that take in exclusively female victims, the majority do take in both male and female victims.
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The Red Pill / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: It's a reference to the slang phrase "red pill" from MGTOW note Men Going Their Own Way and MRA note Men's Rights Activists circles, which is in and of itself a reference to the Red Pill, Blue Pill concept made famous in The Matrix. Though each circle pursues it differently, there is some overlap and for both it means the rejection of society's expectations and the mainstream, but the slang term also refers to the rejection of what society and the mainstream expect of men and women. The tagline is another double reference, again to The Matrix which is in and of itself a reference to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Morpheus's description of the effects of the Red Pill include the idea of showing the main character "how deep the rabbit hole goes," and this documentary is meant to show something — presumably the "rabbit hole" that is gender politics — to the audience. The reference to Wonderland concerns "going Down the Rabbit Hole," which is itself a slang term for entering into either the unknown or the disorienting.
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The Red Pill / int_da9131af	type	The Baby Trap
The Red Pill / int_da9131af	comment	The Baby Trap: Activists within the film argue that if a woman enacts this on a man, he has pretty much no legal recourse from being saddled with a child he didn't want or wasn't prepared for. In some cases, a man is legally obligated to care for a child even if he isn't the biological father. Activists mention France's banning of "at-will" paternity tests without a court order, which limits options for men to prove actual paternity. One of the activists in the film Jaye interviews alleges that it was done to him by his own wife, who trapped him in their marriage through getting pregnant, and then describes the hell she put him through in their custody battle.
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The Red Pill / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: The film presents MRA in a positive light. This can be accredited to the journey of the director being to support the Men's Rights Movement having an effect on the film content; the fact that the research is primarily conducted as interviews with MRA's who will obviously be in support of their own cause, because a lot of the criticism of the movement is left out of the film completely.
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