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The Red Pill (2016)
A tremendous effort
I just watched the movie on the day it was made available to Kickstarter Backers like myself right after I came home from work, and what an emotional roller-coaster ride it is! I've been aware of the Men's Right Movement and all the other Red Pill movements for several years now, though I don't follow any of them regularly anymore, so very little in the movie was new to me, but that's fine since this documentary doesn't require any prior knowledge. What I can say is that it gave an excellent representation of the movement, there's hardly anything I've missed sans the co-opting of feminism by Marxism pretty much since its inception, though that would probably have been too advanced since you would have to explain Marxism, the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory in order to do that, which would be a great documentary on its own. There was a hint of it though, it was mentioned that the women's movement shifted the main blame from capitalism to patriarchy early on, so kudos to that.
I've known all about the harrowing cases of injustices men face in the justice system and the themes of male disposability, men as victims of domestic and sexual violence (though boys being sexually abused by women are hardly mentioned at all, she should have included more here) and male paternal rights, yet watching these made me as mad as I had been hearing about them the first time.
The most harrowing thing she showed were the screams of a baby boy being circumcized, and I can't thank Cassie Jaye enough for being courageous enough to include these in the movie, anyone talking down the horrors of male genital mutilation after watching this deserves to rot in hell (female being equally horrific, but far more stigmatized, and it's great that it's as stigmatized as it is).
Also mentioned towards the end, and again I can't thank Cassie enough, is how feminists have fought any progress on men's rights whatsoever even in the most egregious, barbaric cases and continue to do so, though this could have been expanded on more.
It also raised the question of why feminists and MRAs aren't working together, and besides the aforementioned stonewalling from feminists (and the not mentioned Marxist nature of the feminist movement) the great Karen Straughan weighs in on this with her trademark analytic brilliance.
The MRAs featured in the movie all did a great job of presenting their case, the only one I missed was Janet Bloomfied, though maybe her supreme Shitlord qualities might have been a little too much for some.
What surprised me was that Chanty Binx alias "Big Red" actually comes off better here than I've expected, actually spouting some half truths mixed in with the Marxism. She and two other prominent feminists are featured and they get to make their case, though they weren't shown being asked any tough questions.
All in all Cassie absolutely kept her promise of giving the Men's Rights Movement a fair shake, which I was skeptical of until I saw the movie. This movie is also about her personal journey being a feminist making a movie about the MRM, and from reading other reviews I had been afraid that the movie could be too much about her and to little about the subject matter, but this is absolutely not the case, the way she handled this was perfect, I can't praise Cassie enough for this or for the movie!