Review: The Red Pill
©2017 C. Henry Martens
There is a growing juxtaposition within the debate over male/female rights and roles as the Feminist Movement grows more powerful. This is as it should be, as there are clearly grievances to be addressed and wrongs to be righted.
As a practicing male, I also consider myself to be a Feminist. I am concerned about equality and am enthusiastic to see a world where my daughter and her children exist with proportionate opportunity.
I want the world to be fair.
But I've had this nagging feeling growing in me that the conversation is becoming increasingly one-sided. That the dialogue is addressing the feminine perspective while often ignoring half of the story. Sometimes, a story that could educate the conversation and promote understanding. Such is the way of political correctness.
Certainly, there are many men who understand women have a different role in society than they once had and embrace the change gladly. I hope a majority. But there is a growing number of men who see the one-sidedness of the issue as problematic.
I have had numerous conversations with women discussing women's issues, and there seems a universal anger when it is pointed out that there are two sides to any equation involving the genders. While the issues involved are one hundred percent about how men and women relate, the issues are always couched by Feminists as abusive to women with men as perpetrators.
Women have found their strength, and it is usually in becoming a supportive group to each other. This is an effective strategy when waged against males with little interest in agreeing with each other or disagreeing with the women in their lives. Some men are even sold on themselves as men being guilty by the mere fact they are male.
So, if I am a feminist... how can I question male guilt, or the dominance of the ancient patriarchy?
Well, just as I never owned slaves nor condoned racism, I don't feel I need to harness myself or my son with the seriously faulted behaviors of my fore-bearers. Just as I am of European descent, I never stole land from Native Americans nor slaughtered them as they inhabited the prairies and forests of this continent. I reject the notion that I am guilty of the sins of my father... or my mother for that matter.
On the other hand, if there is some kind of reasonable solution to redress former wrongs, I am glad to participate... and in this context, I am a Feminist.
In this light, I became aware of the Men's Equal Rights Movement.
Netflix offers a movie, a documentary addressing the conversations to be had about the Men's Movement and the dichotomy involved in gender issues. The documentary is also available for sale as a DVD through Amazon and free through Amazon Prime.
The Red PillA Feminist's Journey into the Men's Rights Movement
If you are aware of the context of the red pill in the movie, The Matrix , then you may have some perception of where the documentary goes already because the red pill led Neo to reality, took him down the rabbit hole, so to speak. And the rabbit hole is a very interesting place to investigate. But it's not for everyone.
The documentary is directed and produced by Cassie Jaye, self-defined as a Feminist as she begins her journey into the realities of male issues.
Beginning with admitting she knows little of the Men's Rights Movement, this remarkable young woman makes some assumptions. Many of those assumptions have been my own. I felt a kinship and a sympathy for her expectations. After all, I, too, am a Feminist.
But remember my growing angst about the conversations being one-sided?
I found out that I was not alone. Not only not alone but that I had things to learn.
I cannot adequately address the issues illuminated in the documentary in this article. Besides, I don't believe in spoilers. But I will say that Cassie Jaye and her team presents as fair and unbiased a presentation as I have seen, surprising considering my expectations (my apologies to both sides in that regard).
The story is divulged in pieces, nothing too jarring at any one time, unfolding to reveal surprising and enlightening conclusions. Or perhaps not conclusions but certainly, food for thought. I came to learn that there are far more justified issues involved in gender rights than I knew and some related to being male. I also learned that many of the perceptions are skewed by the current debate. Patriarchy is not all it is cracked up to be.
The debate of rights between the genders is far from settled, and this movie places context in a more informed light. Where one side is certainly justified in changing their role in the world, Jaye's work provides a side less well known and certainly less well verbalized to complete the picture.
I would invite Cassie Jaye to return to being a feminist... as in the end, she states she does no longer call herself one. The Women's Movement needs her voice.
For myself, I am still a Feminist, a more informed one. And I am also a Masculist. Because I believe in equality.
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There is a growing juxtaposition within the debate over male/female rights and roles as the Feminist Movement grows more powerful. This is as it should be, as there are clearly grievances to be addressed and wrongs to be righted.
As a practicing male, I also consider myself to be a Feminist. I am concerned about equality and am enthusiastic to see a world where my daughter and her children exist with proportionate opportunity.
I want the world to be fair.
But I've had this nagging feeling growing in me that the conversation is becoming increasingly one-sided. That the dialogue is addressing the feminine perspective while often ignoring half of the story. Sometimes, a story that could educate the conversation and promote understanding. Such is the way of political correctness.
Certainly, there are many men who understand women have a different role in society than they once had and embrace the change gladly. I hope a majority. But there is a growing number of men who see the one-sidedness of the issue as problematic.
I have had numerous conversations with women discussing women's issues, and there seems a universal anger when it is pointed out that there are two sides to any equation involving the genders. While the issues involved are one hundred percent about how men and women relate, the issues are always couched by Feminists as abusive to women with men as perpetrators.
Women have found their strength, and it is usually in becoming a supportive group to each other. This is an effective strategy when waged against males with little interest in agreeing with each other or disagreeing with the women in their lives. Some men are even sold on themselves as men being guilty by the mere fact they are male.
So, if I am a feminist... how can I question male guilt, or the dominance of the ancient patriarchy?
Well, just as I never owned slaves nor condoned racism, I don't feel I need to harness myself or my son with the seriously faulted behaviors of my fore-bearers. Just as I am of European descent, I never stole land from Native Americans nor slaughtered them as they inhabited the prairies and forests of this continent. I reject the notion that I am guilty of the sins of my father... or my mother for that matter.
On the other hand, if there is some kind of reasonable solution to redress former wrongs, I am glad to participate... and in this context, I am a Feminist.
In this light, I became aware of the Men's Equal Rights Movement.
Netflix offers a movie, a documentary addressing the conversations to be had about the Men's Movement and the dichotomy involved in gender issues. The documentary is also available for sale as a DVD through Amazon and free through Amazon Prime.
The Red PillA Feminist's Journey into the Men's Rights Movement
If you are aware of the context of the red pill in the movie, The Matrix , then you may have some perception of where the documentary goes already because the red pill led Neo to reality, took him down the rabbit hole, so to speak. And the rabbit hole is a very interesting place to investigate. But it's not for everyone.
The documentary is directed and produced by Cassie Jaye, self-defined as a Feminist as she begins her journey into the realities of male issues.
Beginning with admitting she knows little of the Men's Rights Movement, this remarkable young woman makes some assumptions. Many of those assumptions have been my own. I felt a kinship and a sympathy for her expectations. After all, I, too, am a Feminist.
But remember my growing angst about the conversations being one-sided?
I found out that I was not alone. Not only not alone but that I had things to learn.
I cannot adequately address the issues illuminated in the documentary in this article. Besides, I don't believe in spoilers. But I will say that Cassie Jaye and her team presents as fair and unbiased a presentation as I have seen, surprising considering my expectations (my apologies to both sides in that regard).
The story is divulged in pieces, nothing too jarring at any one time, unfolding to reveal surprising and enlightening conclusions. Or perhaps not conclusions but certainly, food for thought. I came to learn that there are far more justified issues involved in gender rights than I knew and some related to being male. I also learned that many of the perceptions are skewed by the current debate. Patriarchy is not all it is cracked up to be.
The debate of rights between the genders is far from settled, and this movie places context in a more informed light. Where one side is certainly justified in changing their role in the world, Jaye's work provides a side less well known and certainly less well verbalized to complete the picture.
I would invite Cassie Jaye to return to being a feminist... as in the end, she states she does no longer call herself one. The Women's Movement needs her voice.
For myself, I am still a Feminist, a more informed one. And I am also a Masculist. Because I believe in equality.
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