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Unswallowing the Red Pill: A feminist analysis of MRA rhetoric and Men's Issues

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Trigger Warning for Suicide mention and self-harm. If reading about that will make you uncomfortable, look away. And this article may seem a little binary, I apologize for that, but that's the fault of research being so binary until very recently. . . . . . Hello everyone, In this essay I will talk about men's rights. Look I know, save the hot takes for the comments or the quote tweets. So recently, I have been embroiled in online discussions of feminism and what stuck out to me was men's issues and MRAs and the notion of a men's movement.  What is this "Red Pill" we are supposed to take? I thought of calling this "feminist takes the red pill" but the red pill was established to show discovery of the true self, and that choice in color was (arguably) a reference to premarin, which is what trans women used to take in the 1990s for feminizing HRT, it is a pill that is red and contained estrogen from horse urine! So, in a sense, I have been "Red-Pi